Quotes About Gossip

Their faces were the way women's faces are when they've been talking about you behind your back and they think you've heard: embarrassed, but also a little defiant, as if it were their right.

Why would I care about the tittle-tattle of the uninformed? Ignorant gossip.

Why would I care about the tittle-tattle of the uninformed?

Frog End, reduced to a single pub and no shop, might appear to be the sort of boring place where nothing much happened but, as he had discovered, this was far from the case. Beneath the placid surface swirled a positive maelstrom of intrigue, scandal and misbehaviour, with a surveillance network to rival the Russian KGB in its ruthless efficiency...

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.

and the most insane gossip tortured the town

Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things

you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.

Tesoro, il mondo perdona, in fin dei conti, tutto, meno il fatto che la gente si occupi dei fatti propri.

Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn't be true!

If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

When we hear a little good and no harm of a person, it is easy and pleasant to imagine more:

it examines the abuse of language in the small talk of women, the big talk of men, in prattle, insult, gossip, curses and the bearing of false witness both through lies and self-delusion.

He received in essence the same answer from every other shop he tried. No one recognized his description of Hester, and none of them had sold digitalis to any member of the Farraline household, or indeed to anyone not known to them personally. He pursued the other sources of information, the public house, the street peddlers and crossing sweepers, the errand and delivery boys and the news vendors, but all he learned was very general gossip that seemed to serve no purpose.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Foul whisperings are abroad

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What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one way, from the woman to the man. And when society stacks up all the odds against a woman, she'd better not count on the man's support. She has no way out other than to end her own life. And I'm in love with an Indian. I must be crazy.

Day Two/5:00 AM: Addicts are often hyper-vigilant about others talking behind their backs or slandering them. Our sponsors tell us that what "they" think of us is none of our business. It can still be hard to take. It matters not if someone speaks badly of me; I live so no one believes it.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.