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Quotes About Gossip

There is buzz among the populace.
~ Michelle Knudsen
The corollary to the Cave Man Principle is that if you want to predict the social interactions of humans in the future, simply imagine our social interactions 100,000 years ago and multiply by a billion. This means there will be a premium placed on gossip, social networking, and entertainment
~ Michio Kaku
Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Every human is a magician, and in the interaction between the magicians, there are spells being cast everywhere. How? By misusing the word, by taking everything personally, by distorting everything we perceive with assumptions, by gossiping and spreading emotional poison with the word. Humans cast spells mainly upon the people we love the most, and the more authority we have, the more powerful the spells.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Los chismes son magia negra de la peor clase, porque son puro veneno.
~ Miguel Ruiz
One little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people, causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others. Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time. Then imagine that in an effort to clean up your own confusion and get some relief from the poison, you gossip and spread these viruses to someone else.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Gossip is black magic because it spreads emotional poison, perpetuates fear, and keeps others down.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Considera las relaciones humanas diarias, e imagínate cuántas veces nos lanzamos hechizos los unos a los otros con nuestras palabras. Con el tiempo, esto se ha convertido en la peor forma de magia negra: son los chismes.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time.
~ Miguel Ruiz
He knows I don't come around just to sniff wine and swap gossip, but he hates the fact that our relationship is mutually abusive. Like all conspiracy nuts, he's a romantic at heart.
~ Mike Carey
You can't believe everything you hear, but it's fun to repeat it anyway.
~ Milton Berle
Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
~ Stephen L. Carter
I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup.
~ Zach Braff
You heard what Declan said about you," Cole realized. Liam gave a little shrug. "At least when he talks behind my back, he sticks to the same things he says to my face. It's actually kind of admirable.
~ Brandon Mull
It was on the first day of spring that Big Steve and I saw Shelly Carpenter giving head to the hairy man.
~ Brian Keene
We were having so much fun gossiping about the show that it was nearly half an hour before we got back to the subject of the microfilm. Actually, I was the one who got us on track again when I suddenly shouted, July, 1935! in a voice far too loud for the library. Sam looked at me strangely. That's the date of the play, I said, blushing. I just remembered it.
~ Bruce Coville
Ogling Douglas' wife, who looked trampily deep into bipolar meds & high-end anti-aging crêmes, Jerzy thought: Now that is a hot fuck. He wondered if Douglas got his C by being wayback viral throatstroked by papilloma .....seems like a person would have to go down on a boatload of broads to get HPV in the gullet (well, do the math), if the actor scarfed half as much pussy as dimpled dad kirk-King Leer , Kirk the lyin' King-then he just might have qualified.
~ Bruce Wagner
Ewww! New girlfriends only want to hear bad stuff about ex-girlfriends, dude, come on.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
the carefully cultivated moral seriousness—strenuousness might be a better word—coexisted with a fantastical, mrs. jellyby–like absurdity. sontag's complicated and charismatic sexuality was part of this comic side of her life. the high-mindedness, the high-handedness, commingled with a love of gossip, drollery, and seductive acting out—and, when she was in a benign and unthreatened mood, a fair amount of ironic self-knowledge.
~ Terry Castle
Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.
~ Terry Pratchett
Right,' he said uncertainty. His mind was grinding through the problem. She was a witch. Just lately there'd been a lot of gossip about witches being bad for your health. He'd been told not to let witches pass, but no one had said anything about apple sellers. Apple sellers were not a problem. It was witches that were the problem. She'd said she was an apple seller and he wasn't about to doubt a witch's word.
~ Terry Pratchett
Don't worry," said Swires. "The old witch hasn't been seen for years. They say she was done up good and proper by a couple of young tearaways." "Kids of today," commented Rincewind. "I blame the parents," said Twoflower.
~ Terry Pratchett