The Town Gossip Quotes

#1. Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

#2. I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Garrett Hedlund

#3. Posting your thoughts on any social media site is like telling you most deeply held secret to the town gossip. Not a wise move.

John Patrick Hickey

#4. A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Billy Graham

#5. Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

#6. There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

Kin Hubbard

#7. [He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

Victor Hugo

#8. 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

#9. Everybody hears whispered gossip and rumors clear across town. But nobody hears the scream next door.

Graham McNamee

#10. The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

John Hay

#11. No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Ami McKay

#12. I'll go live in the woods," said Malone.
"You'll be lonely," said Sutherland. "Even Thoreau went to town in the afternoon to gossip.

Andrew Holleran

#13. Everybody's always doing the same old things
you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

Michael Lee West

#14. You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

Ovid

#15. and the most insane gossip tortured the town

Margaret Mitchell

#16. He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

Victor Hugo

#17. Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.

John-Talmage Mathis

#18. Knowledge is currency here....

Joanne Harris

#19. You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Nicholas Sparks

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

Katarina Bivald