Gossip Quotes

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

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

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

History: gossip well told.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

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

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.

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

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Little said is soonest mended.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

I don't gossip about myself.

Slander is poison to the soul.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.