Quotes About Gossip

Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

But as those who knew the truth said nothing, and those who knew nothing said too much, when night came the city was in a state of extreme confusion.

He said the proclivities for indulging in gossip stems from the same impulse as the reading of novels, only gossip touches on real people. Therein lies the harm.

Gossip, I have discovered, is seldom spread about people who find happiness or contentment.

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

go." "In effect, she did. I really think the poor girl was hated to death; she hanged herself, by the way. Gossip says she hanged herself

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else. After

There's no denying, for instance, that my clever Julia is a fool and my lovely Arabella is a—    Flirt, Mrs. Halloran said.    Well, I was going to say tart, but it's your house, after all.

Why was it, Mrs Pargeter mused, that the only people who said they were the last ones to spread gossip were always such arrant gossip-mongers?

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

After his remarks upon suffrage he abruptly questioned her about herself. His kindliness and the firmness of his personality enveloped her and she accepted him as one who had a right to know what she thought and wore and ate and read. He was positive. He had grown from a sketched-in stranger to a friend, whose gossip was important news. She noticed the healthy solidity of his chest. His nose, which had seemed irregular and large, was suddenly virile.

Ellen Whoozis, the cocktail-party queen, who writes the Necking Notes, is going to marry the religious editor!

Prohibition had turned drinking from an agreeable, not very important accompaniment to gossip into a craze.

Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?

But I was afraid you might blab.

With one person knowing a movie star and not telling the other

They just go on and on. The most extraordinary one is this one I found on a gossip site: Becky "drank cocktails" before row, bartender reports I mean, for God's sake. What does that have to do with anything? They might as well write LOIS AND SAGE VISITED BATHROOM ON DAY OF ROW. They probably will write that.

IOKASTE. So ging das Gerücht und ist noch nicht verstummt.

Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action....The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented--and then do nothing.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.