Quotes About Gossip

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We can continue this conversation later." "I don't think so," she said. "You boys gossip worse than a bunch of old women and I think it's high time you mind your own bloody business." He leaned toward her and kissed her cheek. "Yeah, good luck with that.

It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy

I will ask you again. Are you mad? Well, that is the rumor, isn't it?

Ils racontaient sur mon compte des horreurs à n'en plus finir et des mensonges à s'en faire sauter l'imagination.

I didn't believe he would, but I refused to bet, because I wanted to tell Mrs. Allan all about everything, and I felt sure it wouldn't do to tell her that. It's always wrong to do anything you can't tell the minister's wife.

Are you not the one who told me that she had to petition the king to get her husband to sleep with her? Aye,that is the gossip at court, but no one knows what she looks like save the king,and he refuses to discuss it. 'Sides, her husband died on the way home to perform his....er duty. 'Twas probably suicide, Amaury muttered grimly.

As much as I would enjoy such rumors spreading around about my . . . er . . . virility, ye probably, definitely, shouldn't say it to the other ladies," he decided. Evina nodded, but said, "Too late." "What?" he asked, aghast. Evina scowled at his dismay. "Well, what the devil do ye think we women talk about when ye men aren't around? The weather?

That's all they discussed, those neighbors of my mother's: who had died; who was just about to drop dead; who was getting married to whom, so that they could have a miserable life together and then die.

No dia seguinte entrou a dizer de mim nomes feios, e acabou alcunhando-me  Dom Casmurro. Os vizinhos, que não gostam dos meus hábitos reclusos e calados, deram curso à alcunha, que afinal pegou. 

Eugênia desfiou uma historiazinha de toucador, que omito em suas particularidades por não interessar ao nosso caso, bastando saber que a razão capital da divergência entre as duas amigas fora uma opinião de Cecília acerca da escolha de um chapéu.

Some people talk about other people's failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

Literature and gossip are closely related. People who are curious and imaginative long to know 'what it's like for other people.' This longing can be satisfied in its basest, most banal form through gossip, just as it can attain a more refined and complex gratification in art. Both gossip and literature, each in its own way, are capable of offering a partial antidote to fanaticism, because they both relish the fascinating differences between people.

Lies spread faster than you can catch them.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

I didn't like that look, and I didn't want it. But you can't just tell someone to knock off her look because she'll only give you another. And if you happen to raise your voice too much while asking her to stop looking, she'll hurry off to tell a friend about your behavior the second you walk out of earshot. And then that friend will come find you under some kind of pretense, wanting to decipher what's up your ass today.

I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers.

As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started.

When you move like we did from town to town in these mostly rural areas, word of mouth gets your message out to customers pretty quickly without much advertising.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

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Alas; they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth

People are always willing to believe the worst about someone.

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