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Quotes About Gossip

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
~ Fannie Flagg
Biography is higher gossip.
~ Robert Winder
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
~ Bertrand Russell
Gossip needs no carriage.
~ Russian proverb
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
~ Ogden Nash
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
~ Saki
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.
~ Hesiod
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.
~ Kin Hubbard
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.
~ Spanish proverb
A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.
~ Beryl Pfizer
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
~ Walter Wine hell
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
~ Bible
Foul whisperings are abroad.
~ William Shakespeare
Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.
~ Bible
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Oscar Wilde
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
~ George Eliot
People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.
~ Julia Cameron
Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
~ Jay Leno
People do not realise that if they say something negative about someone, it turns into positivity for the person they are speaking badly about because they get sympathy.
~ Shehnaaz Gill
The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
~ Robert Asprin
Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.
~ Jay McInerney