Quotes About People Who Gossip

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

Steve Maraboli

#2. The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

Casey Affleck

#3. Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Saadi

#4. Don't indulge in gossip ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Ann Landers

#5. He had always assumed gossip to be the malicious whispering of uncomfortable truths not the fabrication of absurdities. How was one to protect oneself against people making up things Was a life of careful impeccable behavior not enough in a world where inventions were passed around as fact

Helen Simonson

#6. Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#7. 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

#8. Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

Liang Qichao

#9. Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

Suzy Kassem

#10. I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#12. Having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.

Jan Burke

#13. Gossip is conversation about people.

Gore Vidal

#14. People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.

T.F. Hodge

#15. I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

Aimee Bender

#16. It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

Vanna Bonta

#17. People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

Blake Lively

#18. sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Always be ready for criticism for there shall always be people who shall be ready always to criticize you. The positive lesson you learn from your critics, is the most important thing which matter and not just the matter!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. It's funny how the people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.

Auliq Ice

#22. People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

Fran Lebowitz

#23. It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Honore De Balzac

#24. A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.

Jessica Szohr

#25. Remember, kiddo, gossip says a lot about people. But not the people who are talked about. Only the people who do the talking."

Charleigh Rose

#26. We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?

Rand Paul

#27. 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

#28. Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Anna Godbersen

#29. Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

Donna Lynn Hope

#30. Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

Carrie Fisher

#31. 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

#32. The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

Bill Keller

#33. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Murasaki Shikibu

#35. 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

#36. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

Hesiod

#37. There are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself.

Jonathan Franzen

#38. Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

Chris Vonada

#39. 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

#40. People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#41. 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

#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 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

#45. I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano

#46. 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

#47. Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Jane Smiley

#48. 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

#49. If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

John Dufresne

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

Louisa May Alcott

#53. How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Logan Pearsall Smith

#54. This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it - so few people, so many opinions?

Katarina Bivald

#55. The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

#56. People gossip about me.
I am sorry for what I have done;
I have taken three thin steps
And landed myself in the tavern of my mistress

Tsangyang Gyatso

#57. People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.

Anthony Liccione

#58. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. 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

#60. Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

Beth Gutcheon

#61. If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

Pedro Reyes

#62. Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

Mona Simpson

#63. People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

Marcia Lynn McClure

#64. When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.

Donald L. Hicks

#65. 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

#66. Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda