Quotes About Gossip

Rumour has a hundred mouths.

Though Kenya was vast, there was surprisingly little privacy in our colony. Everyone seemed to know everyone else's business, particularly when it was personal.

Do you think Jock will come after me?" Boy asked when I recounted the whole story back at Soysambu. "Now that he knows about us?" "Why would he? His whole argument has been about keeping up appearances and avoiding gossip. If anything, he'll make my life harder or dig in more about the divorce." We

No one really knows how it is with anyone else. That's the truth. That's our only real retaliation when the gossip starts to churn.

After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary.

Scandal is a community service and a free entertainment at that; witnesses generally feel obliged to pay admission with sympathy.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

Malicious gossip is the death of the soul.

Rasha had been employed by two different Chinese shops, and she said that after this experience she would never work for an Egyptian. She described the Chinese as direct and honest, and she appreciated their distance from local gossip networks. "They keep their secrets," she said.

My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.

lest the one who hears may disgrace you, and your infamy never go away.

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.