Quotes About Gossip

Abruptly, she said, I wonder what she did to so alienate our father that he disinherited her. Do you know? Supposedly… she ran off with Glen Sabella. He was a mechanic, and he was married. Gossip had it that your father was furious, especially since— Since both his wife and his other daughter had also run off without a word.

She's no dream woman I keep telling you, princess. Everyone here knew her a month ago and had a good word for her. What can it be makes everyone, yourself included, forget she ever lived?

Hello, Josie.' Rick, looking up at us, had on a cautious smile. 'I heard this rumour we might be friends again.

a mathematician is someone for whom mathematics is a soap opera.

Everyone had heard what happened and they were all so pleased, so very pleased. Which seems a little odd, but in Cainsville "a little odd" was the norm.

by morning everyone in Cainsville would know he'd stayed over, and that was just awkward.

Most people in Kingsbridge could talk only about agriculture and adultery, neither of which interested her.

a budget was like a newspaper gossip column: most of it could be fiction, because no one ever knew the truth.

A lie goes halfway round the world while the truth is getting its boots on.

The same baby at Kingsbridge Priory would cause a stir. On the other hand, what was wrong with that? It was not a sin to give people something to talk about.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

A long-tongued, babbling gossip.

Holla your name to the reverberate hills,And make the babbling gossip of the airCry out, "Olivia!"

He doth nothing but talk of his horse.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

Reckless talk costs lives.

It was a warm night for the end of March. Walt had left the front door to the ice-cream parlor open when he went out after supper to gossip with the old men down at Darly Stidger's Store. And yet it was not spring, although winter was dead and the moon was sickly with the neitherness of the time between those seasons: those last few weeks before the cries of the green frogs would rise in stitching clamor from the river shores and meadow bogs.

No freedom at all when we give birth to lie. No freedom at all when we hurt other persons' rights. No freedom at all when the leader listens to gossiping. At last, we cannot walk or work because we're free for nothing.

Which is why I stayed long enough to buy every man a pint and winnow out at least a little kernel of wheaty truth from the chaff of gossip.

So do I, Rip," Stoker put in. "You were rat-arsed and no doubt made some highly vulgar observations which so inflamed Merry that he came round at the first opportunity to see Miss Speedwell for himself. He as much as insinuated she was my mistress," he said flatly.