232 quotes found
“Tattlers also and busy bodies speaking things which they ought not.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.”
“No one gossips about other peoples secret virtues.”
“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who cant get into it do that.”
“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ”
“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”
“I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.”
“There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hu...”
“If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.”
“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some d...”
“It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.”
“I give boring people something to discuss over corn.”
“Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.”
“Its not technically gossip if you start your sentence with Im really concerned about __________________ , (fill in the name of the person youre not gossiping about).”
“This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.”
“Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.”
“It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how...”
“You know I dont listen to market gossip, she began,but it is hard not to hear it when my daughters name is mentioned.”
“Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the Nor...”
“The gossip mill runs on estrogen.”
