Quotes About Gossip

Goodness me, someone's been rumour-mongering for all he's worth, eh?

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

María Antonieta charla exclusivamente con la boca, y no con la cabeza.

No one had seen anything of Urk since he had gone galloping out into the night carrying Meriam, the hired girl. It was generally assumed that he had drowned her and then himself. Who cared, anyway?

Coward! Liar! Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the ironmongery?

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.