Quotes About Gossip

If you don't have money, gossip isn't bad leverage. Even inside one's own family.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

Right, Annabelle," Jackie said. "I'm sure if Joya were alive today, they'd have a grand old time. At least Joya would. She'd just love to tear at Camille. Remember those long, long nails of hers? Never painted them. I always thought that was weird.

Uma cidade tão sufocante e pequena que todos os dias você esbarrava em pessoas que odiava. Pessoas que sabiam coisas sobre você. É o tipo de lugar que deixa marcas.

Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement.

A rumor needs no true parent. It only needs a willing carrier

An entire week of drawn shades was evidence enough to send her flying around with reports that as soon as it got dark they pulled their shades down and put on the lights. Heads nodded in knowing unison—a definite sign. If doubt was voiced with a "But I pull my shades down at night too," a whispered "Yeah, but you're not that way" was argument enough to win them over.

Small places live on small talk, but sometimes the happenings can be too lean for everybody to get enough fat out of it to chew over.

She was salted in the ladies' room?

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

helped the boy-governor eat the remains of the fruit, they discussed how it was that newspapers sometimes knew all sorts of secrets that they ought not to have known—and certainly ought not to publish, when the rest of the time they had no interest in facts at all. "Whatever sounds as if it might suit the prejudices of the reader, that is what will be published," said Chase.

The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.

Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.

Gossip sometimes becomes a reality for some.

Word had spread that the foreigner was arriving.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.' We

I don't really worry too much about what people say. I guess it's good that people talk about me.

Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don't even know. I have long since given up trying to figure out why even my closest friends split up.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?