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Quotes About Gossip

It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts.
~ Kurt Cobain
I go to the rail and shout after her as she descends the stairs, "But that Mrs. Shinn called me a whore! In front of everybody!" She pauses on the middle steps and looks up at me. "Perhaps, Miss Faber, it is because you continually act like one!
~ L.A. Meyer
there are biddies, always biddies, everywhere in this world, who are more concerned with the morals of others than they are with their own. A
~ L.A. Meyer
Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them
~ L.J. Smith
Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa. "I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.
~ Cassandra Clare
The most interesting women are always the most whispered about.
~ Cassandra Clare
Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.
~ Cassandra Clare
In a mud-slinging contest, everybody gets dirty.
~ CAT ADAMS
He raised his beer bottle to his lips just as Emma said, "Well, I told Becca that you and I were sneaking off to have wild sex in Tucker's bedroom..." "You did?" Logan recovered enough to be able to talk. "Yeah. I kind of had to." Emma shrugged. "She was being nosy and annoying me. Don't worry. She didn't believe me." "Wow. I'm going to be useless for the rest of the night now. I'm not sure I'll be able to think about anything else besides that image you put into my head.
~ Cat Johnson
They snickered behind her back in tones that sent up prickly hedges all around their tight huddles of lace dresses and ribboned curls.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
We cannot control the evil tongues of others,; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
~ Cato the Elder
the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.
~ Geraldine Brooks
If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.
~ Gertrude Stein
There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.
~ Gilbert Parker
It was not in my nature to gossip, which put me at odds with most of my sisters at San Zaccaria, who twittered hearsay like so many flocks of birds.
~ Gina Buonaguro
Nei piccoli paesi c'è della gente che farebbe delle miglia per venire a portarvi la cattiva nuova.
~ Giovanni Verga
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
~ Giuliana Rancic
I was not scared of Edwina Currie - a bully who shagged the prime minister. It was music to my ears when she finally got kicked out. The silly cow.
~ Gordon Ramsay
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.
~ Author Unknown
One Swallow makes ('tis true) no Summer, Yet one Tongue may create a Rumour.
~ Thomas D'Urfey, c. 1690
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
~ Spanish proverb
A gossip always gives you the benefit of the dirt.
~ Sam Cowling
Don't let your hatred gossip.
~ Terri Guillemets