Quotes About Gossip

Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?

I detest that woman [Rachel Lynde] more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick.

Well, I won't. Ludovic Speed and Theodora Dix live in Middle Grafton and Mrs. Rachel says he has been courting her for a hundred years. Won't they soon be too old to get married, Anne? I hope Gilbert won't court YOU that long. When are you going to be married, Anne? Mrs. Lynde says it's a sure thing. Mrs. Lynde is a— began Anne hotly; then stopped. Awful old gossip, completed Davy calmly. That's what every one calls her. But is it a sure thing, Anne? I want to know. You're

She and Diana talked so constantly about it all day that with a stricter teacher than Mr. Phillips dire disgrace must inevitably have been their portion.

Why didn't you tell her it was no business of hers?" said Eben angrily. "Old Flora Jane had better mind her own business.

What is the matter with Harrison Miller, anyway?

Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear.

Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?

They say he missed that whore.

The woman, Dillard whispered. The woman. They say he missed that whore.

I can always find someone to go out with, and then you can take off with Luigi--" "Shh!" Kendra hisses. "Don't ever say his name!" "Sorry!" Paige is contrite. "He says Catia would go mad if she knew," Kendra whispers. Squashed beside me, I feel Kelly's head nodding in vigorous agreement at this.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

The seniors look my way before they leave. One girl, not the cheerleader, nods her head, and says, Way to go. I hope you're OK. With hours left in the school year, I have suddenly become popular. Thanks to the big mouths on the lacrosse team, everybody knew what happened before sundown. Mom took me to the hospital to stitch up the cut on my hand. When we got home, there was a message on the machine from Rachel. She wants me to call her.

stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. The news spread from the prison as fast

As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.

She was a Celebrity Fucker.

Two things spread quickly: gossip and a forest fire"—Cypriot proverb.) I

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It's really sad, because that's what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms how she came to believe in this doctrine, she will begin to tell you, eagerly, the story of her life.