Quotes About Gossip

Rumors were nothing more than blunted swords of simple minds and wagging tongues.

I cannot believe we had to read it in the paper - when we are your dearest school friends!" Lady Abernathy said sweetly. "Yes, we were so close," Emma replied, just as sweetly. "Like England and China." Lady Abernathy paused to puzzle over that.

marido? —Soy viuda. —Será de un fantasma encarnado, porque los otros días yo vi a Peyo caminando por la Plaza —interrumpió otra de las comadronas que esperaban en la oficina. —Para lo que sirve, mejor darlo por muerto —respondió la comadrona que entrevistaba. Rieron ambas.

It's basically my fear about what happens when you leave a room. Everyone says the thing about you that you really can't bear.

Sexual debut. Sometimes it seemed to Deenie that high school was like a long game of And Then There Were None. Every Monday, another girl's debut.

The place was hissing with stories told behind hands as she walked into the place.

had learned from painful experience would lead to whispers and the shaking of heads. Gossip grew quickly from seeds into vast, tangling jungles of strangling vines and carnivorous flowers. You could spend years trying to hack your way out of that poisoned garden.

I heard that he had all these pictures of you . . .' 'Well, I heard you flunked out of school.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

She loved rhubarb pie. She loved the morning sun. She loved drying the sheets on the clothesline, even in the dead of winter. She loved a good pot of jasmine tea. She loved orange rinds and gossip and peacock feathers. She loved plums." "Plums. Greengage plums?" "Yes, greengage plums.

Following Alyssa, they all walked over to the green clearing in front of the mess hall. It was where they'd held most of the all-camp activities, like games. Jenna sighed, remembering all the good times she'd had there---the gossip, the giggles, the crazy conversations.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

È un errore madornale credere che i pettegolezzi interessino più alle donne che agli uomini.

To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another." -- Jane Fairfax

Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, the PR aide put on the campaign by Ivanka Trump, had an affair that ended in a public fight on the street—

There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an "idiot." For Gary Cohn, he was "dumb as shit." For H. R. McMaster he was a "dope." The list went on.

People who aren't full of the love of Christ love strife and salacious news;

Conque tu hermano Lázaro —me decía Don Manuel— se empeña en que leas? Pues lee, hija mía, lee y dale así gusto. Sé que no has de leer sino cosa buena; lee aunque sea novelas. No son mejores las historias que llaman verdaderas. Vale más que leas que no el que te alimentes de chismes y comadrerías del pueblo. Pero lee sobre todo libros de piedad que te den contento de vivir, un contento apacible y silencioso.

The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.

Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

You can't believe everything you hear, but it's fun to repeat it anyway.