Quotes About Gossip

Lia had mentioned staleness, and I wondered if this was it. Growing old in this town, with these women you've known your entire life, eating cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, and rehashing the same gossip week after week. As comfortable as I was in my routine, in my sameness, I could see how that might seem terrifying.

But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.

We usually believe gossip about ourselves to have been inspired by a level of malice far greater (or more critical) than the malice we ourselves felt in relation to the last person we gossiped about, a person whose habits we could mock without this in any way altering our affection for them.

where the author has no ordained place or prescribed function and with nothing useful to do except gossip and make myself amiable; I succumb all too readily to the lure of conviviality and sociability's powerful drug and just sit around and watch.

People gossip even when they don't care,

I cannot see the word troubled prefixing the name of some poor starlet who has been dragged through the mire of tabloid spite without vomiting directly onto the newspaper. Troubled by whom? Troubled by you, you fuckwits.

Really, we musicians do like to talk about Mussorgsky. In fact, I think that it's the second most favourite topic after Tchaikovsky's love life.

of thing. "Were you at Cornelia's?" "Ghastly.

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.

We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.

Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

Peter and I were hanging out and he told me about what you guys were doing today.

Ms. Davenport loves being in on student drama. She calls it having her finger on the pulse, but really, she's just a gossip. If you give her an opening, she'll burrow in for as much dirt as she can.

What are you thinking about so hard? Are you still stressing over your sex tape?" "It's not a sex tape if you're not having sex in it!" "Calm down, Lara Jean. I'm sure Peter's grandstanding did the trick and people will leave it alone. They'll be on to the next thing." "I hope you're right," I say. "Trust me, there'll be someone or something new to obsess over by next week.

In French class, I hear Emily Nussbaum whisper to Genevieve, "If it turns out she's preggo, do you think Kavinsky will pay for the abortion?" Genevieve whispers back, "No way. He's too cheap. Maybe half." And everyone laughs. My face burns in mortification. I want to scream at them, We didn't have sex! We are brisket!

It might not have been him. But it doesn't matter, Lara Jean, because even if he didn't encourage all the talk, I doubt he discouraged it, if you know what I'm saying.

In some Zen monasteries, gossip is defined as talking about anything not directly in one's gaze.

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

Take Care not to have an itching tongue, nor tingling ears; neither attract others, nor listen to backbiters. [Letter to Nepotian]

How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else—even when we are unsure of our facts. We forget that "a man who stirs up dissension among brothers" by criticizing one to another is one of the "six things which the Lord hates" (Proverbs 6:16-19).

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.