232 quotes found
“Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell.”
“Don't be fooled... If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.”
“So you are the scribes that nobody and everybody is talking about, Konrad said. I dont know about that, Malachi said. Im not much for gossip.Oh, we eminent politicians dont call it gossip, Malachi....”
“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. Sp...”
“A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.”
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
“It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.”
“When gossip starts, be deaf.”
“If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.”
“It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.”
“Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?”
“Sure, Mom.They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.”
“True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
“She struts into the hair salon, her mouth filled with a rotten egg of gossip, unshelled, filled with decay. As soon as she sits down she bites into the shell, and the stink of her lies fills the ai...”
“Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print”
“Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they wi...”
“The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.”
“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”
“There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.”
“Gossip is a Sin just like all other sins that not only hurts those it is spoken about and slanders their reputation, but it also hurts the one who speaks it and the one who listens. Gossip is cruel...”
