Quotes About Gossip

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.

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Revelaré secretos? No, porque los que tengo no son revelables, son secretos de verdad. ¿Cotillerías? Soy el último que se entera de todas y por tanto el menos adecuado para propalarlas.

I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.

Rumours die out faster than they are born, and I'm prepared for them.

People love drama. They feed off of it.

The press likes to create cat fights with girl bands.

I think that scandal and intrigue and all of those sort of things that occur behind closed doors - whether it's on the Hill or in the White House - people all find intriguing.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something 'horrible' about me. Who cares? At least they're watching the show.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who informed me of this spoke only matter-of-factly, with no hint of the gossip's wicked delight.

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

I have to say that talk of me living as a tramp at one point is completely false and I think that's been added to my entry in Wikipedia, but I have been asked about that quite a few times.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

I know that gossip comes with a territory. It's a professional hazard, and while initially, I'd get a little riled, I've now learnt to handle it well. And honestly speaking, it's all very good publicity, isn't it?

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

Every newspaper report of Virginia's action made events in Virginia sound more extravagant than they were. The Burgesses had passed four resolves; Maryland printed six and Rhode Island seven; undoubtedly stories relayed in private letters, by word of mouth, the gossip of taverns, parishes, towns, and court meetings introduced further distortions. Henry's bravado was reported in these stories; his backing down was not.

She was worse than a blabber; she was a hinter. It gave her pleasure to rouse curiosity and speculation about dangerous things.