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Quotes About Gossip

For a whole month, the whole demi-monde was forgotten for one English virgin. Never, even in Paris, had a woman triumphed so.
~ Max Beerbohm
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
~ Max Brooks
Practically put, we love our neighbor and refrain from gossip. We refuse to cheat on taxes and spouses and do our best to love people who are tough to love. Do we do this in order to be saved? No. These are "the good things that result from being saved.
~ Max Lucado
Bailey told me after that Joyce had hairs on her thing and that she had gotten them from doing it with so many boys. She even had hair under her arms. Both of them. He was very proud of her accomplishments.
~ Maya Angelou
I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.
~ Meg Cabot
The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.
~ Meg Cabot
It was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know.
~ Meg Cabot
I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly. "I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked.
~ Meg Cabot
She was the worst person ever. She seriously has got some issues, that Lana Weinbeigher!" (Page 4)
~ Meg Cabot
The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her. Her secretary of the archives, murmured the magus. Hmm? asked the queen. Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so- Accurate? Overtly direct, said the magus. Eddis laughed.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Yer a worse gossip than a old woman.: :It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.:
~ Mercedes Lackey
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.:
~ Mercedes Lackey
If the person you're speaking to will think worse or less of the person you're speaking about, then it's gossip, so cut it out!
~ Bear Grylls
When rumours fly, when false tales are being told, be the storyteller.
~ Bernard Cornwell
and the rumor was believed because truth is ever feeble against passionate falsehood.
~ Bernard Cornwell
no one ever gossips about the virtues of others
~ Bertrand Russell
Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is god-sibling? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.
~ Beth Gutcheon
In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.
~ Jason Statham
'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.
~ Gretchen Rubin
I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
~ Rachel Hunter
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
~ Samantha Bond
The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed.
~ Sue Grafton
It'd been Lucy who ran tattling to Miss Mary about my lettering under the tree, and Miss Mary had run tattling to missus. I'd judged Lucy to be stupid, but she was only weak-willed and wanting to get in good with Miss Mary. I never did forgive her, and I don't know if Miss Sarah forgave her sister, cause what came from all that snitching turned the tide on Miss Sarah's life. Her studying was over and done.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Well, that's the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she aught to live inside it.
~ Sue Monk Kidd