Quotes About Gossip

It is sometimes too delicious to hear evil of a person one has despised for many years.

Celestina Giuliani learned the word slander at her cousin's baptism.

She was a big ol' ho," Riley told her brother. "She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy

No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

I found out so many things about so many people that I didn't want to know

As they told it, all these people were involved with each other. There was a lot of hooking up and jealousy and breaking up and making up. Anyone could have been mad about what happened.

The indignation was too sharp and raw for a mere piece of professional gossip; each man took it as a personal insult; each felt himself qualified to alter, advise and improve the work of any man living.

But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them.

some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She

But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them. It gets to be

half the town would claim they'd seen it coming, just because they thrived on downfalls of any sort.

The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.

gossiping, backbiting courtiers, and as he closed the mahogany door behind him and the heavy brass latch clacked into place, the room erupted into a dozen scheming conversations. Power was like a magnet, keeping everything rigid and straight and proper. But without the magnet, it all collapsed into disorganized scrap.

there was no way to control what one person said to the next

The peace researcher John Galtung pointed out that if a newspaper came out once every fifty years, it would not report half a century of celebrity gossip and political scandals. It would report momentous global changes such as the increase in life expectancy.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.