Quotes About Gossip

The problem wasn't that Stephen was a fathead and Virginia was a gossip. It was that Stephen was a driven fathead with a large conservative following and Virginia talked to everyone.

Okay, why did we have to leave?" Bonnie said when they were in Liza's convertible and Min was banished to the backseat. "Because Min was swapping tongues with a doughnut pusher." Liza looked back over the seat at Min the sinner and shook her head.

What else matters but pedigree and rumor, my lord? Those things make the world go around.

They say if your ears are burning then someone is talking about you. Is that true? Because I have a question about what it means if it's a different body part.

She talked too much, and evidently not in the right ways or about the right things.

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

They say there's microbes in a kiss, This rumor is most rife, Come, lady dear, and make of me - An invalid for life

Let them, let them scratch where it itches, it's a real human itch to gossip, to go over someone's bones until they're picked clean. They can't live without it. And you just keep quiet, do your work, and don't taunt them--they'll stop sooner. And then it'll be someone else's turn, and you'll be with the others again. Is this the first time? The very thing they blame you for, they'll praise you for later. People…

Gossip can be entertaining—occasionally I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

What about Cher and Suzanne?" I called after him. "I don't know, but if you end up kissing them, call me. I wanna watch.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.