Top 100 A Gossip Quotes
#2. It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.
Ruth Downie
#3. He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence - of talking without meaning - is never effaced.
Henry Adams
#4. The monster of advertisement ... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat ...
Sarah Bernhardt
#5. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
#6. Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
Tahir Shah
#7. Well isn't that a juicy bit of gossip I hadn't heart about? And full term. Which means she was shagging Justus with a bun in the over.
So the man playing naked Twister with a prostitute is one to judge?
Dannika Dark
#8. The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
Pope Francis
#9. Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
Charles Spurgeon
#10. In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
Robert K. Massie
#11. Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.
Chris Vonada
#12. A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.
Vera Nazarian
#13. The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.
Roxanne Roberts
#14. In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
Tahir Shah
#15. A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.
Elizabeth George
#16. I look away from him, replying sarcastically, Well, you can tell JT and Pete for me that the next time they hold a knitting bee and gossip circle, I could use a new sweater!
Amy A. Bartol
#17. Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
Habeeb Akande
#19. The indignation was too sharp and raw for a mere piece of professional gossip; each man took it as a personal insult; each felt himself qualified to alter, advise and improve the work of any man living.
Ayn Rand
#20. And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
Kathleen O'Dell
#21. Around her the tables were filling with people, tourists planning their next stop over a coffee, businessmen meeting for luncheon, well-heeled women taking a break from their sprees, leaning in to gossip with one another, shopping bags piled at their feet.
Kathleen Tessaro
#22. The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It just isn't good table manners to exclude someone from their own ridicule. That's why the juiciest side conversations occur at a table for one.
Bauvard
#23. Anyone who thinks women have a monopoly on gossip has never been to a gay bar. Those queens will rip you to shreds.
Andrew Grey
#24. I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don't indulge in either. We don't need to.
Courtney Milan
#25. A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.
Greg Iles
#26. Our debates, for the most part, are examples unworthy of a playground: name-calling, verbal slaps, gossip, giggles, all while the swings and slides of governance remain empty.
Toni Morrison
#27. I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#28. Selfish Dreamscapes
If you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them ... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own.
T.F. Hodge
#29. The discussion itself is what most matters, the fact that we can reason together easily, with a blend of wit and seriousness, never descending into gossip or slander and always allowing room for alternative views.
Stephen Greenblatt
#30. A rumour is like a prostitute;
it will go with whoever embraces it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.
Kristen Bell
#32. Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
Michael Sims
#33. Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'
Dreama Walker
#34. When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.
Ron Suskind
#35. Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.
Douglas Hurd
#36. What did you tell her?" (...)
"That we found Mrs. Parrish wandering the streets in a scandalous manner last night, and remain in London to circulate gossip
Carrie Bebris
#37. According to the local gossip," Gertie said, "Beulah was over the moon for this guy. She even mailed him a pair of her underwear." "If he was really a marine," Ida Belle said, "he could have used them as a parachute.
Jana Deleon
#38. Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.
Jack Levin
#39. Sit up straight." "Don't fidget." "Write a thank-you note the minute you receive a gift or return home from a party." "Always have fresh flowers, no matter the cost." "Clean gloves and shoes are the sign of a lady." "Never let the help get the upper hand." "Be discreet." "Be above gossip.
Melanie Benjamin
#40. Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong
#41. Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.
Jonathan Haidt
#42. If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.
Eddie Izzard
#43. Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
Peter Diamandis
#44. Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.
Bianca Scardoni
#45. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word postmodernist.
Donna Tartt
#46. Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
Louis Kronenberger
#47. Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele
#48. The difference is between saying something to a person, and saying something about a person. The first might be rude, but the second is always gossip.
Patrick Rothfuss
#49. This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it - so few people, so many opinions?
Katarina Bivald
#50. If one read [Lady Whistledown's Society Papers] often enough, one could almost feel a part of London society without actually attending any balls.
Julia Quinn
#51. Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.
Paul Tobin
#52. Which was why Skye was in a recliner that went hot and cold more often than Blair and Nate.
Lisi Harrison
#53. We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato The Elder
#54. I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Candace Bushnell
#55. In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that's been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip; I revere it with all my heart.
Tana French
#56. Gossip is the are of saying nothing in a way that leave practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
#57. Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously.
Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web
#58. 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.
James C. Scott
#59. The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell Phillips
#60. It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
Anne Hathaway
#61. Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
#62. It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein
#63. People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.
John Fairchild
#64. The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain.
Chaim Potok
#65. I get accused all the time of having a big
mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.
Meg Cabot
#66. There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.
Andrew Holleran
#67. The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.
Sufjan Stevens
#68. Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
Euripides
#69. If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."
Brigham Young
#70. Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.
Pope Francis
#72. There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.
Michelle Cooper
#73. Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the hair? When I think of it, damn it, I'm a public benefactor.
Dorothy Dunnett
#74. People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.
Angelina Jolie
#75. After the week she'd had, she wanted to go to the cafe and sink into a couch, gossip and laugh and sketch and drink tea and make up for lost normal.
Laini Taylor
#76. I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
Jay McInerney
#77. Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
Primo Levi
#78. Face Book keeps asking me to complete my relationship status; I doubt it has the soul of a gossip magazine column's starving journalist.
Shahla Khan
#79. Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.
Soul Dancer
#80. Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.
Muhammad Ali
#81. A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
George Bernard Shaw
#82. My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#83. Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
Leonard Ravenhill
#84. There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. "Things about Lucia which I should never dream of stating openly."
"Those are just the ones I should like to hear about most," said Diva. "Just a few little titbits.
E.F. Benson
#85. I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'
Penelope Cruz
#86. SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.
Thomas A Kempis
#87. He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.
Victor Hugo
#88. Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.
Lysa TerKeurst
#89. He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.
Stefan Bachmann
#90. Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice.
Jacob Wild
#91. When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#92. Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
Thomas A Kempis
#93. I was just thinking about how high school gossip travels fast. I guess my life has been reduced to either a text or a tweet.
Thomas Amo
#94. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
Phyllis McGinley
#96. The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.
Alveda King
#98. After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.
Ian T. Ker
#99. There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.
Molly Harper
#100. Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
Criss Jami
