Quotes About Gossip

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

In spite of the Attorney General's warning to Hoover that the ADL's "fact finding" was nothing but gossip which the Jews were using to settle scores with their opponents in the culture wars of that era, Hoover retained the Bureau's contacts with the ADL. He refused to break ties with the ADL because Jewish criminals like Meyer Lansky were paying the ADL to blackmail Hoover by gathering information about his homosexuality.

Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

Journalism is organized gossip.

Garbo Talks!

If nobody knows the trouble you've seen, you don't live in a small town.

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.

They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.

Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's lives.

Their words seemed to them as idle tales.

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.