Quotes About Gossip

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

If you worry of what people have to say about you, you will always be very worried.

Don't be so quick to believe what you hear because lies spread quicker than the truth.

A tongue can accuse and carry bad news, gossip is cheap and it's low. But unless you've made no mistakes in your life, be careful of stones that you throw.

Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

No matter what you do, someone will always talk about you. Someone will always question your judgement. So just smile and make choices you can live with.

I love not being trusted, even though I wasn't the one saying all those things.

So I trusted you with information, then you told everyone but you twisted my words and now everyone hates me...okay, cool.

You hadn't heard 'Teaser Augustus'?" the Princesse d'Épinay would ask. "But of course," the Marquise de Bavano would reply with a blush, "the Princesse de Sarsina-La Rochefoucauld told me about it, but not in quite the same terms. But it must have been so much more interesting to hear it repeated like that in the company of my cousin," she added, as though she had been speaking of a song accompanied by the composer himself.

But there is edited every day in Paris, Balzac would tell us, a sort of spoken newspaper, more terrible than its printed rivals

When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political news, generally false but always devoutly to be wished, you could induce from the nature of his predictions where his heart lay.

But tongues are strangely loosened and are swift to denounce people's faults when the revenge of the person accused is no longer to be feared.

They knew the address. They went to the house. They did not see its mistress. But at dinner that evening she would say: "I hear they've

Really, it is unheard of, this spontaneous generation of falsehood. I do not ask who it was that told you, but it would be really interesting, in a field as limited as this, to work back from one person to another and find out how the story arose

Andan las tres todo el santo día riñendo, pero cuando hay que despellejar a una mujer, están que muerden en un confite.

Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.

But rumour is a creature with many heads and no body, and I had no way to hunt it, any more than I could smooth over matters with my new relations.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Journalism is organized gossip.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

Don't you just LOVE rumors, they tell you so many awesome things you didn't even know about yourself!