Top 100 Quotes About Gossip
#1. The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#3. So all of this agony was for nothing?"
"You exposed us to malicious gossip for nothing."
"You were cruel."
"So were you."
"You hurt me."
"And you hurt me. Is revenge everything you dreamed it might be?
Sylvain Reynard
#4. And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell ... You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#5. It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.
Ruth Downie
#6. 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.
Mario Balotelli
#8. 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
#9. There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.
H.P. Lovecraft
#10. 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
#11. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
#12. When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.
T.F. Hodge
#13. In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.
Redd
#14. Gossip is when you hear something you like
about someone you don't.
Jane Seabrook
#15. Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
Tahir Shah
#16. 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
#17. There are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself.
Jonathan Franzen
#18. Observation #3: They gossip.
Can you believe it? I overheard Finn and Doug in the backyard talking about some girl named Dawn who blew off some guy named Simon for some other guy named Rick for like twenty minutes! They sounded like those old mole-hair ladies at Sal's Milshakes.
Kate Brian
#19. The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
Pope Francis
#20. The more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)
Mary Sumner
#21. Don't be fooled ...
If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.
Steve Maraboli
#22. Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.
Yongey Mingyur
#23. The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
Aminu Kano
#24. Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
Charles Spurgeon
#25. 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.
Robert Ludlum
#26. Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.
Kelly Rutherford
#27. In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
Robert K. Massie
#28. Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
Hector Hugh Munro
#30. Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.
Chris Vonada
#31. 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
#32. Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip.
Susan Pollack
#34. People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#35. If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.
Confucius
#36. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
Kevin Spacey
#37. The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.
Roxanne Roberts
#38. In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
Tahir Shah
#40. You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone." The
Gail Carriger
#41. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.
Dave Eggers
#42. I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [ ... ] or juicy gossip.
Gad Saad
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.
David Halberstam
#46. Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
Habeeb Akande
#47. So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip ... In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. 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
#50. I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!
Jennifer Damiano
#51. Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).
Jack Kornfield
#52. IF EVERYONE TURNED GOSSIP INTO PRAYER, THERE WOULD BE NO MORE REASON FOR GOSSIP.
Anonymous
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!
Harvey MacKay
#56. 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
#57. Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
Jane Smiley
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.
Michelle Franklin
#61. Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print
John Clare
#62. You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.
Howard W. Hunter
#63. If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.
Hesiod
#64. Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
Ford Madox Ford
#65. The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
Elizabeth Drew
#66. Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
Ogden Nash
#67. If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.
John Dufresne
#68. Following Alyssa, they all walked over to the green clearing in front of the mess hall. It was where they'd held most of the all-camp activities, like games. Jenna sighed, remembering all the good times she'd had there---the gossip, the giggles, the crazy conversations.
Melissa J. Morgan
#69. Gossip's like jam; it don't bear fruit if you don't spread it.
Jan Watson
#70. 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
#71. Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.
Nicholas Sparks
#72. Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.
Stefan Zweig
#74. The feeling of rank is one of the most basic human instincts. To gossip about someone is to elevate yourself above him or her.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.
Robert Jordan
#76. A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.
Greg Iles
#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. A rumour is like a prostitute;
it will go with whoever embraces it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. 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
#84. If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.
Harry Blamires
#85. Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
Michael Sims
#86. 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.
Lindsey Vonn
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them.
That's my girls.
Gail Carriger
#91. Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger
#92. Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.
Douglas Hurd
#93. But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation.
John Le Carre
#94. It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
Louis Kronenberger
#95. 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
#96. I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.
Joyce Carol Oates
#97. 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
#98. the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.
Geraldine Brooks
#99. Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.
Ingmar Bergman
#100. 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
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