Best 588 quotes in «gossip quotes» category

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.

Did God really say that I couldn't tell my friends what so and so did yesterday? Does that really count as gossip? No, it's just venting, and venting is healthy right? Wrong! We are supposed to think about the things that are praiseworthy, not gossip worthy.

Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even more exciting, if you know the people. But if the gossip's about yourself, it's very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I'm a victim and that hurts because it's not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Gossip is the worst form of judging.