Gossip Quotes

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.

In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.

I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.

A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

Gossip is the worst form of judging.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.

I think someone's sexual orientation is great fodder for gossip. But again, it's non-news to me or anyone who knows me.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

History is only gossip.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

[Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.