232 quotes found
“I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.”
“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
“Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.”
“Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.”
“Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.”
“At school, the news that Pia Kolvenbach was moving to England and that her parents were divorcing had circulated with lightening speed. Suddenly I was no longer ostracized for being the Potentially...”
“When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.”
“What was really unfair about the whole thing was that Oma Kristel hadn't so much exploded as spontaneously combusted. But Gossip is Baron Mnchhausen's little sister, and never lets the truth get in...”
“If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details.The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.”
“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying t...”
“Gossip till the cows come home.”
“The only reason for the many unknown excuses I had to make up to get out of the parties, school reunions, fake get together, informal office meetings was that I didnt like Gossiping.”
“You must learn to ignore what people say, Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. Youll be much happie...”
“These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a man's character, and everything that man does is made to seem unde...”
“Talk for people and not about them. Unless you have love in your heart, refrain from discussing another person.”
“Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.”
“I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.”
“Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.”
“... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.”
“Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds anothers heart”
