Quotes About Gossip

Whore!" someone cried out. A woman's voice. Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.

Dark wings, dark words.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me.

I was so careful. How could he know? Someone told. Someone always tells.

Are you?" she asked mildly. "It's said that you have uncles, brothers, a sister." "My brothers are long dead, and my sister … well, they say Asha's favorite gown is a chainmail hauberk that hangs down past her knees, with boiled leather smallclothes

The girl that they once cheered as the Realm's Delight had grown into a grasping and vindictive woman, men said, a queen as cruel as any king before her. One wit named Rhaenyra "King Maegor with teats," and for a hundred years thereafter "Maegor's Teats" was a common curse amongst Kingslanders.

This is old news, and stale," growled the Shavepate. "Your mother said the same of your father's kisses," Daario replied.

Someone told. Someone always tells.

The aristocrats on both sides of the Atlantic, whether from new or old wealth, have the manners and the morals of small-town gossips. And

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

By evil report and good report.

There's villainous news abroad.

With faint praises one another damn.

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well, I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.