Gossip Quotes

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that g...

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few he...

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and abov...

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting...

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A...

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you ...

Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based alwa...

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in vil...

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes an...

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me.

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: p...

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially i...

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumo...

I’ll tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, o...

Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's...

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once ...

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am I...

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, whic...

Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well...

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful...

A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and...

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your fa...

There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. "Things about Lucia whic...

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges agains...

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distr...

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the pers...

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...

Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.

… I wonder why she hasn't spread the tale.""The only reason she would not is if she is ill or the st...

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly...

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for ...

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., ‘the smaller you will find it.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the riv...

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for l...

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women o...

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that...

No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better,...

There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those th...

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of con...

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All c...

The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their frie...

This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice p...

In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, ...

Gossip till the cows come home.

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

I heard the little bird say so.

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot o...

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than ill...

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put togeth...

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your ow...

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviali...

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else th...

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier dis...

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped F...

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in...

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interest...

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly h...

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked abo...

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as w...

These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoke...

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.