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Quotes About Gossip

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.
~ Joel Osteen
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
~ Mark Twain
The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.
~ Orson Welles
And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...
~ Rachel Vincent
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
~ Samuel Johnson
The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.
~ Monika Ramzy
Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would like to be the first to tell you who criticized you.
~ Amit Abraham
Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...
~ Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement
~ George Bancroft
And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
~ Kathleen O'Dell, The Aviary
He did not want an affair with his boss. He did not even want a one-night stand. Because what always happened was that people found out, gossip at the water cooler, meaningful looks in the hallway. And sooner or later the spouses found out. It always happened. Slammed doors, divorce lawyers, child custody.
~ Michael Crichton
They mainly ran around the building insulting people
~ Michael Lewis
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.
~ Nicki Minaj
I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.
~ Alice Eve
We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.
~ Hilary Liftin
People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
~ J. B. Smoove
Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip about everyone, or you can become one with everyone.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I love Gossip Girl. I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like Top Chef.
~ Jessica Stroup
I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars.
~ Jon M. Chu
by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.
~ Laetitia Pilkington
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.
~ Margaret Atwood
I love it when celebrities fall apart.
~ Moby