Talking Gossip Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. So you are the scribes that nobody and everybody is talking about," Konrad said.
"I don't know about that," Malachi said. "I'm not much for gossip."
"Oh, we eminent politicians don't call it gossip, Malachi. We call it 'intelligence.

Elizabeth Hunter

#4. There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.

Michelle Cooper

#5. Women prefer speaking to talking.

Raheel Farooq

#6. 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

#7. My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.

Mallory Ortberg

#8. It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Herb Shriner

#10. The next summer we went to France for six weeks, and I added another 420 words, most of them found in the popular gossip magazine, 'Voici'. "Man-eater", I'd say. "Gold digger, roustabout, louse".
"Who are you talking about?" my neighbors would ask. "What social climber? Where?

David Sedaris

#11. There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. 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

#13. In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

Voltaire

#14. Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.

Jayne Bauling

#15. So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

Dan Pearce

#16. An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#17. When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you.

Donald L. Hicks

#18. Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Anthony Liccione

#19. There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.

Chace Crawford

#20. It's more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you're talking about writing a series. How believable is it that this Hollywood gossip columnist is going to keep stumbling on all these murders?

Josh Lanyon

#21. When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

Debra Webb

#22. Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people tend to have more confidence in the person you talked about when they get tired of your gossip. Speak with love and kindness or don't speak at all.

Uzoma Nnadi

#23. I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

Taylor Swift

#24. Talking behind someones back does not make you better. It only demonstrates how much of a coward you are for not saying it in the persons face.

Unknown

#25. I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

Winona Ryder

#26. Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.

Victor Hugo