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Quotes About Gossip

Unhappily we are so weak that we find it easier to believe and speak evil of others, rather than good.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
~ Thomas Carlyle
History, a distillation of rumour.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Istoria este distilarea zvonurilor.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I had a kiss with Raquel Welch's daughter - she was a very naughty kisser.
~ Hugh Grant
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
~ Aeschylus
E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.
~ Billy Bush
My mates will tell me they saw me in the newspaper linked to this club and that club, but to be honest it goes in one ear and out the other.
~ Phil Jones
The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.
~ Robin Leach
The atmosphere in the newsroom could be pretty poisonous. When I arrived, the people who worked on the 'Six' were sitting there slagging off what had gone out on the 'One.' I thought: 'What is this place? And what are you saying about me?'
~ Fiona Bruce
People say a lot of mess about celebrities. In the social media world, celebrities are able to go online and see nice things and horrible things written about them - but these people on the Internet wouldn't have the guts to say it to their face.
~ Wendy Williams
There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.
~ Sarah Bradford
Sophie was beginning to realize that there was nothing to be done about actors: they would always end up sleeping with each other. They had always done so, and they probably always would.
~ Nick Hornby
Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia . It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.
~ Noam Chomsky
She's talking about condominiums, my friend Betty Searle called up to say one day. Obviously she's involved with someone. Are you sure? I said. Of course I'm sure, said Betty. The question is who. She thought for a minute. Maybe it's Senator Campbell, she said. He's talking condominiums, too. Senators always talk about condominiums, I said. That's true, said Betty.
~ Nora Ephron
Did he mean me or Jenny Mullendore was a slut? Joanne wondered. Because honestly, I don't see how she has the time for slut activities with those two preschoolers of hers. Me, I've got lots of time.
~ Nora Roberts
People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.
~ Nora Roberts
Stop thinking of yourself as a reflection of what a man saw in you, andbe. I asked you if it bothered you that people will talk. I wish you'd said the hell with people. Let them talk. It's time you gave them something to talk about.
~ Nora Roberts
Don't hate me." "Does anybody?" "Kevin's old high school girlfriend." "Because she's a slut." Jenny beamed. "I didn't realize you knew Candy.
~ Nora Roberts
It's ridiculous to say not to speak ill of the dead. We're all going to be dead eventually. What would we talk about in the meantime?
~ Nora Roberts
I don't give a damn what they say about me, but nobody's going to talk behind their hands about you. Where the hell did you get that skirt? he exploded. Tarts U Us?
~ Nora Roberts
History makes the best gossip. And tomorrow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, tomorrow's going to take care of itself anyway, isn't it?" He
~ Nora Roberts
There are very few Americans who honestly care who Lindsay Lohan is dating. But it's still information they need to have. This is because those people care about something else entirely; they're worried about the possibility of everyone else understanding something that they're missing.
~ Chuck Klosterman
He has a child—a bastard boy, as I understand. Not born of his wife, Maratelle, but of some…kitchen woman.
~ Chuck Wendig