Quotes About Gossip

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about, that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough, and could dispense with any more.

There are some towns so small that your second best friend is your third worst enemy.

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

En Peyton Place había tres fuentes de escándalo: suicidio, asesinato y la deshonra de una muchacha soltera.

Everybody hears whispered gossip and rumors clear across town. But nobody hears the scream next door.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

Mientras más lees te percatas con mayor claridad de la estupidez de los otros: te tornas agresivo, extraño y desembocas tú mismo en la imbecilidad. Lunático, raro, mamón, pedante, extraño son algunos de los adjetivos preferidos de los vecinos para referirse a mi persona. ¿Cómo lo sé? Alguna vez los he escuchado por allí murmurando en los pasillos.

Gossip's not amusement, Uncle Zeke.' Arabella was grave. 'It's an essential part of social life.' 'Why?' 'It keeps up the moral values of a community by picking out the deviants and criticising their behaviour.

Tragedies don't digest well in a small town.

The newspapers of today chronicle with degrading avidity the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatever. I must give them up.

Being alone and in peace is better than being among people who will stab you in back and say all manner of things about you when you turn your back...

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. What we learn about someone isn't what others tell us. It's what we observe. People can tell us anything they want.

Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people always finding faults in your life instead of fixing the faults in their life.

Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are always finding faults in your life instead of fixing the faults in their life.

In life, we must always find out things straight from the horse's mouth and not listen to the jackass spreading the gossip.

Grant's reputation as a heavy drinker is based very little on evidence and a great deal on gossip, envy, and vengefulness.

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

You know what they say: a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting its pants on.

I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.