Top 64 Those Who Gossip Quotes
#2. 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
#4. Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
Habeeb Akande
#5. You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.
David Halberstam
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [ ... ] or juicy gossip.
Gad Saad
#9. 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
#10. You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone." The
Gail Carriger
#12. In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
Tahir Shah
#13. The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.
Roxanne Roberts
#14. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
Kevin Spacey
#15. 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
#16. People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#17. 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
#18. Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously.
Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web
#22. 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
#23. Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]
Plautus
#24. The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
Marthe Bibesco
#25. May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
Harold Wilson
#26. 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
#27. Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
Alexander Pope
#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
#30. Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.
Marvin J. Ashton
#31. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
George Eliot
#32. Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
Stephen L. Carter
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#37. 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
#38. And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell ... You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#39. It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.
Ruth Downie
#40. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
#46. When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.
T.F. Hodge
#47. 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
#48. Gossip is when you hear something you like
about someone you don't.
Jane Seabrook
#49. Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
Tahir Shah
#50. 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
#51. There are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself.
Jonathan Franzen
#52. 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
#53. The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
Pope Francis
#54. The more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)
Mary Sumner
#55. Don't be fooled ...
If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.
Steve Maraboli
#56. 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
#57. The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
Aminu Kano
#58. Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. 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
#60. Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.
Kelly Rutherford
#61. In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
Robert K. Massie
#62. 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
#64. Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.
Chris Vonada
