Quotes About Gossip

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.

I said to the wife, Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one. And she said, I'll bet it's that stuck up Phyllis at number 23.

Be careful who you tell a secret, some peoples' way of keeping secrets is posting them on Facebook.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted.

If anyone asks, I'll tell them we both just moved on. When people all stare, I'll pretend that I don't hear them talk

some anonymous guy in a bar at a conference, then the newspapers start asking questions. Pretty soon I'll bet it's going to be on Twitter and then there'll be an Internet meme. It doesn't have to exist in reality as long as people give it a kind of reality by talking and writing and arguing about it.

old Irish adage, people only know what you tell them.

It was rumoured even her husband would cross the road rather than meet Joanie when she had the hump.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

That school-teacher from Acton is coming to-day, said the older Miss Gill, Sophia.

Remember the nature of knowing insider information. It's like a drug. It makes you feel both superior and special. But what if those rumors are false? And even if they are true, you didn't experience them firsthand, and there is most likely a slant to the story you know nothing about.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

That wench gets around like a chain letter.

Blondeen was preparing to kill me and Jessie. She had been bad-mouthing us all over town and harassing us whenever we bumped into her in public ever since me and Jessie got together.

The living need the truth, before rumor pollutes it.

Most gossip is envy in disguise.

Much of gossip is envy in disguise, Much of self-doubt is conformity in disguise.

Most gossip is envy in disguise. .. keep swimming." -Matt Haig The Midnight Library

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.