Gossip Is Spread By Quotes

#1. I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.

John Dufresne

#2. Gossip's like jam; it don't bear fruit if you don't spread it.

Jan Watson

#3. Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#4. That woman could spread gossip faster than the flu in a whorehouse.

Jean Oram

#5. Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Paul Scott

#6. Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.

Steve Maraboli

#7. Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.

Ellen Buckingham Mathews

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.

Anthony Liccione

#10. I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

Learned Hand

#11. The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.

Boo Weekley

#12. Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

China Mieville

#13. It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn