Quotes About Gossip

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

No woman has ever come up to me and said that my husband was having an affair with her.

Just because many of my friends happen to be male it doesn't mean I'm having an affair with them.

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.

I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore.

Once every woman was a living gazette, a font of delicious slanders cast in beautiful language.

For women know how to say everything among themselves, and more of them are ruined by each other than corrupted by men.

With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances,

In vain Pons tried to put in a word; La Cibot talked as the wind blows. Means of arresting steam-engines have been invented, but it would tax a mechanician's genius to discover any plan for stopping a portress' tongue.

Celebrity, my dear fellow, is based upon controversy.

Why do grown-ups think they can talk over your head? When my mother and her friends gossip, they think I don't understand what they're saying, because they talk all around a subject instead of using plain words. Or they don't finish a sentence and then give each other meaningful looks. Well, it doesn't take a genius to fill in the blanks--I've learned how to figure out what goes in blanks from taking school tests.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.

If we knew everything that was ever said about us and if at the same time we took every word at face value, we would remain friends with no one.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

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Bad-mouthing everyone else is such a simple option.

Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of the Christopher Beeston who had acted with Shakespeare's company. The partly cancelled note reads: 'the more to be admired, he was not a company keeper. [He] ... wouldn't be debauched, and if invited to, writ [i.e. wrote] he was in pain.' [Ch.24]

So it's hardly surprising that Martha bitched up a storm

If this were an episode of Bridgerton,he'd be the "rake

Improbability is no barrier to gossip.

Be careful what you say and who you say it in front of in this place, every ear is guaranteed to have a running mouth.

My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!