Gossip Quotes

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. (Will Rogers)
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. View quote
Will Rogers
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. View quote
Walter Winchell
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. View quote
Erica Jong
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. View quote
Joseph Conrad
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. View quote
Billy Graham
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. View quote
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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)
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. View quote
Edmund Wilson
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. View quote
Voltaire
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie. View quote
Paul Scott
Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works. View quote
Jane Smiley
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation. View quote
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium. View quote
Matt Drudge
Gossip is easy, politics is hard. View quote
Tabitha Soren
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable. View quote
Tabitha Soren
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. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on. (Harold Wilson)
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears... View quote
Arnold Schoenberg
Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. View quote
Gore Vidal
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. View quote
Gore Vidal
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. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
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