232 quotes found
“Biography is higher gossip.”
“Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.”
“Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".”
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
“Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.”
“Gossip needs no carriage.”
“Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.”
“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.”
“No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.”
“Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.”
“The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.”
“If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me.”
“What some invent the rest enlarge.”
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.”
“A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.”
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
“He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.”
“Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.”
“Foul whisperings are abroad.”
“I heard the little bird say so.”
