Gossip And Truth Quotes

#1. Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

Paul Tobin

#2. he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.

Criss Jami

#4. The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.

Simon R. Green

#5. Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Susan Hill

#6. Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Erica Jong

#7. Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Conor Oberst

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

Will Rogers

#9. Sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always say why trust myself when gossip can tell moi the real truth about moi?

Plum Sykes

#10. Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Never waste your precious time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Susan Wittig Albert

#13. Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth.

Philip K. Dick

#14. Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#16. Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

David Spade

#17. 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,

#18. 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.

Lucinda Roy

#19. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.

Anthony Horowitz

#20. 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

#21. Gossip is so dangerous, because it makes you feel like you told the truth. And you did. Just not to the person involved. It scratches that itch, that impulse to tell the truth, but it has no power to transform, and it destroys trust. When

Shauna Niequist

#22. Don't give me truth, just give me gossip
And skeletons from people's closets,
I wanna be normal
And millions buy it,
I am blinded by The SUN.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#23. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Miguel Ruiz

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

T.F. Hodge