Quotes About Gossip

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. —Will Rogers

You'd be surprised what everyone in Hollywood got up to in those days.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.

Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.

In show biz you are where you live. Real estate is the key to who has been signed, dumped, divorced, defrocked, deflowered, disbarred, arrested, disgraced, married and multiplied.

Let's be honest. Chad is not an exception. Our churches have long been filled with people who claim to be Christ followers but who live like pagans. Our lives have not been all that different when it comes to things such as divorce, sexual purity, forgiving those who wrong us, loving our enemies, slander, gossip, and the harder things of discipleship.

A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.

en cuando a ella…, bueno, ni siquiera se presentó —añadió en voz baja. —¡E hizo muy bien! —estalló la princesa entonces—. No la queremos aquí.

Talking about the characters in a book she had enjoyed felt like gossiping about friends.

Her classmates were gossiping their way into adolescence, literally and figuratively.

Small town, things get around

All the while, it was rumored, she continued to have relations with the boy, Prince João

Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter's Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

You and bloody Lord Jack Redgrave!

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.

What a pity men didn't gossip about their wives the way women did about their husbands, then they would soon learn that their own wife wasn't the only one with shortcomings….

We have to relate with our mental gossip and our emotions simply and directly, without philosophy. We have to use the existing material, which is ego's hang-ups and credentials and deceptions, as a starting point. Then we begin to realize that in order to do this we must actually use some kind of feeble credentials. Token credentials are necessary. Without them we cannot begin. So we practice meditation using simple techniques; the breath is our feeble credential.

She took the kids to church on Sunday. he didn't go. Couldn't stand the hypocrisy of all those jerks acting holy, floating a saintly foot off the floor (like levitating demons, if you asked him) until they got back into the outside's worldly sewer, returning faster-than-light-speed to their regular gossip, bigotries, and backstabbing.

As Nietzsche says about Christians, you can tell from their faces that they don't enjoy doing what they do. Fiction writers cluster in the unlit corners of the room, silently observing everybody, including the poets, who are usually having a fine time in the center spotlight, making a spectacle of themselves as they eat the popcorn and drink the beer and gossip about other poets.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.