Quotes About Gossip

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

In a small town nothing is private. Word spreads with the incomprehensibility of magic and the speed of plague.

possible topics around which the currents of speech may flow: Death and the danger of death: violence, fighting, sickness, fear, dreams, premonitions and communication with the dead. Sex and relations between the sexes: dating, courtship, proposals, marriage, breaking off relationships, affairs, intermarriage. Moral indignation: assignment and rejection of blame, unfairness, injustice, gossip, violations of social norms.

Monica was the first woman in town to bob her hair," said Miss Burgess. "And she was the first woman, at least the first respectable one, to smoke in public." "When you see her," continued Miss Claudia, "tell her I think she stepped on my train because Colonel Glass had danced with me three times that evening, and hadn't danced with her once.

Dublin is a big village and a dirty village where gossip reigns supreme'.

the gregarious intimacy, rare in a town of this size, the vivacious gossip, the cultural fizz, the wit and repartee at every social level . . .

The secrets started when the maid told her friend, the maid next door who told her Mistres, who told the across the street neighbor and soon the tongues were wagging like flags in the wind....

It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude.

This story was made up by his neighbours not because they were fanciful or wanted to deceive, but like most tittle-tattle to fill a gap, as few like to confess ignorance, and if people are asked about such or such a man they must have something to say, or they suffer in everybody's opinion, are set down as dull or "out of the swim.

Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds. There is a certain communism of the senses at the root of most things we consider fun.

sharing is not simply about morality, but also about pleasure. Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds. There is a certain communism of the senses at the root of most things we consider fun.

If people with good reputations are a resource for whom others compete, this leads to all the dirty tricks that people use against one another when they are competing for something of value. One such move is to "poison the well," to destroy the perceived value of the resource. When the resource is a person's reputation, some individuals will spread malicious gossip to destroy or damage it (Roland Barthes described this as "murder by language").

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

PAUL: ...We're a very close family. We don't take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.