Best 588 quotes in «gossip quotes» category

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...

They’re gonna bleed you out till you’re nothing, and then they’re gonna ask how you died

...thi det er med Sandhed som med andre Dyder, hvilke, naar Grændser ikke sættes, kand tabe deres Navn af Dyd.

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics. Or masturbation. - Johnny Depp

This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people—because, surely, Wally was nice—would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer—and harder, if not impossible, to conceal.

Those we murder with our mouths often live longest

Those who seek to know gossip will hear ill about themselves.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

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.

Transparency comes with a price that I don't mind paying if someone else can cash out on the experiences. $goosedupgossip

Underachieving people, use little chitchats had with successful people as gate passes to obtain entrance into places their reputation cannot get them.

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.

Unlock joy in any situation! True understanding and mutual respect do not bridge blames, destructive, negative criticisms, false excuses and gossips. To express disappointments and ill-feelings are normal however to gossip around certain people and events in order to put another person down and destroy one's credibility is a form of bullying whether one expresses it publicly or privately. Beware of segregation, regionalism, individualism, discrimination, stereotyping, destructive criticism, false accusations, biased wrong assumptions, prejudice, senseless comparison and unwanted competition because life is much more meaningful to live for where there is unity and harmony.

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great dead American would be scandalized over some crime against How It Used to Be. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

We all need prayer—more than we need to be ‘followed,’ or talked about.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 tickles your ears should not stab another’s heart.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 prefer speaking to talking.

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.

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