Quotes About Gossip

Those times when someone you thought was your friend talks about you behind your back really hurt. Even if you act like you don't care, deep inside, you care.

All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.

According to the local gossip," Gertie said, "Beulah was over the moon for this guy. She even mailed him a pair of her underwear." "If he was really a marine," Ida Belle said, "he could have used them as a parachute.

Oh well, he had that whole sex-tape scandal thing with his secretary and those chickens, so his opinion on most anything doesn't matter anymore.

Small town. Not a lot to do. You either got married, drunk, or pregnant, not necessarily in that order.

It was enough that slander could ruin a woman, because her purity was the most important thing about her.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.

Elise thinks of Denise's laugh cracking like thunder over the Turnbull houses, the paprika in her chili, the way her bra cuts into her back, the powdery heat of her body when they'd lie on the bed in the summertime, the afternoon too hot for anything but gossip and game shows. Her mother played with Elise's hair like it was her own, absentmindedly twirling it as they smoked.

All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don't know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.

If you don't clearly communicate to everyone else why someone was let go, the people who remain at the company will come up with their own story to explain it.

Las mujeres sienten curiosidad sin mezcla, su mente es indagatoria y chismosa (...) no saben que los actos se cometen solos o que los pone en marcha una sola palabra, necesitan probar, no prevén, quizá ellas sí están dispuestas a saber casi siempre, no se acuerdan que después de saber todo cambia a veces

You asked me just now for the truth---well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.

I didn't know Countesses were so neighborly.

She was BAD . . . always. They used to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, said my mother, as if the scene of the offence added to the guilt of the couple whose past she was revealing.

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.

All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches.

Now, that's what you call a vicious French queen. I never discussed your penis size – " "Bet you did," Kevin said, "at the beginning. I've heard the way gay guys talk at the gym. Nothing's sacred. Not even my poor little penis.

lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays

It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.

Chapter 8 "America's No. 1 Vomic" (Winchell)

Unfair. So. Unfair. Someone says something about you, and just because they said it first—because you were trying to be nice and not complain, you're in the position of denying it

Bullies use various power tactics, such as spreading malicious gossip, excessive criticism, withholding resources or information, excluding a targeted person from the group, and other devious behaviors intended to undermine the confidence and performance of others. Bullies often take aggressive action against individuals in an effort to control and have power over them.

The Bean house stands empty. All through the mountains people whisper of it, and shake their heads.