Quotes About Gossip

How darkness infects those among us who can't resist a juicy tale.

Erica Jong believes "gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

We know very well what there is under other people's tails, but we cannot live without sniffing.

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

unspoken hangs like smoke in the rooms and corridors of Temple Alice. What is uttered are small asides, loaded with venom:

Spreading rumours is our national past time

it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said.

Most of our journalists today have nothing great to report except poking their noses into other people's family affairs.

The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street, their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

How's Her Royal Bitchiness?" "Alive." "Pity.

Would you believe Nell told me off for kissing Sienna in the corridor?" Felix couldn't fight his own grin. "Way I heard it, you were doing more than kissing. Wasn't there a half-unbuttoned shirt involved?" Hawke's bad-tempered grown reverberated through Felix's bones. "I can't wait to have ammunition against you. I hope Dezi pounces on you in public.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.

Our churches are being destroyed by gossip. What is it about us that wants to hear all the garbage?

Gossip, unless aimed or honed sharp like a weapon, was natural to human beings. It showed interestin oe's fellows, interest in the well being of the tribe. "Gossip was a way to learn taboos, pass on warnings, share the burden fo being human among many so the onus of bearing it alone would fall on no one person. " Molly said. From an Anna Pigeon Novel

Most of the women were frank in their assessment of the men, gossiping about which make a good husband, which good sport. Hild mostly listened to the birds.

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics. Or masturbation. - Johnny Depp

Although she tried not to let the rumors that she had followed the Prince out of vanity bother her, she had known that it was partly true. Her aching heart, however, gradually informed her that it was much more than just partly true.

The child seems quite a nice little thing." "But how long will she stay quite a nice little thing with a mother like that? Really, Mabel!" "And nice little thing or not," spoke up somebody from the other side of the hearth, "I'm sure I don't want my son meeting her at dances, and things, as he grows up, and run the risk of having him fall in love with a girl with such a mother!

Winners gather together to fuel hope; losers gossip together to fuel hate.

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

The stories told about him were endless and legion; were they not produced by the fertile brains of those gossip columnists who must daily dish up a ration of jokes, slanders, insinuations, sly digs for the anonymous multitude concerning whom nobody ever bothers to write anything?

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