232 quotes found
“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.”
“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”
“And though theres a grain of truth in every rumor, Ive found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.”
“The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.”
“It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is ea...”
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”
“There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. "Things about Lucia which I should never dream of stating openly.""Those are just the ones I should like to hear about mo...”
“I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.”
“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”
“The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of...”
“The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!”
“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.”
“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is ...”
“Someone's therapist knows all about you.”
“Underachieving people, use little chitchats had with successful people as gate passes to obtain entrance into places their reputation cannot get them.”
“There, you see," said the carpenter. "And now may I give the little lady a piece of advice? She has learned to use her eyes well. She can tell the babies apart better than anyone else. But she must...”
“Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.”
