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We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.

Welcome to the 21st century cosmopolitan world where biased thoughts preside over unbiased deeds, simple gestures become overrated gossip materials and injustice is a part of long term justice.

We live in a world where ppl will tongue thrash u 4 dissing their fav celebrity but sit silent when hearing gossip about a friend

Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia. It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.

We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.

What can a woman do when scandalous gossip travels the world? If she defends herself, she sounds guilty. So I waited some more.

What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?

What you say about someone behind their back, says a lot about your backbone.

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.

What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one way, from the woman to the man. And when society stacks up all the odds against a woman, she’d better not count on the man’s support. She has no way out other than to end her own life. And I’m in love with an Indian. I must be crazy.

What was really unfair about the whole thing was that Oma Kristel hadn't so much exploded as spontaneously combusted. But Gossip is Baron Münchhausen's little sister, and never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.

What you do behind someone's back you do in front of God's eyes.

What tickles your ears should not stab another’s heart.

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process of biological evolution of the human mind. Just like the evolutionary expression of aggression in men, gossiping is an evolutionary feature of the female psychology. Women trade various secrets from their personal experiences through gossiping in order to create connection and intimacy with their female peers.

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.

Women are the gossips, the seers, the story-tellers. One of these days I'll tell him: pay attention, Tom dear, because it's women who are the keepers of secrets.

Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires.

Women prefer speaking to talking.

Wondering about other people’s private affairs is a one-man gossip.

Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much

You are definitely not famous if only less than a million sane people are interested in your sex life.

You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.

You cannot believe everything you hear

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.

You'll come to learn that many times, the people you have problems with are not really the people you have problems with; but in actuality, the problems lie in the premises of everybody else in between you, in their suggestive glances, in their implications and tone of voice, in their provocations and less-than-noble intent. Again, it comes down to shutting out the noise that isn't supposed to be there and listening to your inner silence.

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. “You’ll be much happier that way.” Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. “I’ve learned that while gossip about others is often true, it’s never true when it is about oneself.

You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine. “Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love reading novels so much?

[Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

your gonna meet new people, but be careful most of them are 2 faced. But remember the most important people is God and family aren't 2 faced so look up to the ones that are important in your life.

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

All literature is gossip.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.

A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl