Quotes About Gossip

You're nothing but a snoop and a tattletale!

That girl has been bad again," Ramona heard the four-year-old next door say to her little sister.

I like being in a country where when cows attack, word of it gets around. That's what I mean when I say Britain is cozy.

Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.

Phones were originally seen as providing services—weather reports, stock market news, fire alarms, musical entertainment, even lullabies to soothe restless babies. Nobody saw them as being used primarily for gossip, social intercourse, or keeping in touch with friends and family. The idea that you would chat by phone to someone you saw regularly anyway would have struck most people as absurd.

Beulah has a husband?" "I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her and here we are both in the same town.

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world; this is evident from the quarrels caused by occasional indiscreet disclosures.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

the juice. All I'm asking is that you keep it away from this gossip woman, because if that story runs tomorrow and Ellen sees it—" There's a click on my phone.

room was crowded with officers bringing reports or collecting orders, or simply gathering gossip. At one end of the room was a very venerable, ornate and crumbling

besides, everyone knows you hate Lord Dare." And everyone thought it was merely because he had kissed her and then she'd found out that he'd done it to try to win a wager. No one knew differently: not her aunt, not her friends, not the noblemen of the haut ton—no one but Tristan Carroway. And she intended to keep it that way.

No day is safe from news of you. --from The Rival, written July 1961

Still, I imagined myself going to some Boston priest--it would have to be Boston, because I didn't want any priest in my home town to know I'd thought of killing myself. Priests were terrible gossips.

You all of you try to talk as if nothing had happened, And yet you are talking of nothing else. Why not get to the point Or if you want to pretend that I am another person— A person that you have conspired to invent, please do so In my absence. I shall be less embarrassing to you. Agatha?

That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true—much more difficult than proving they are.

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

In Morocco, said Osman, word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.

Rumors faster like barnacles around any event, tending to take familiar shapes.

No one is lonely when they read or create. It is only the uncreative who indulge in gossip.

There would be whispers. There were always whispers. And whispers, if left unchecked, could quickly grow into roars.

Vergie didn't shut up about movie stars until I fell asleep. Of course, I'm just assuming she shut up then.