Best 588 quotes in «gossip quotes» category

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

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.

The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her secretary of the archives," murmured the magus. "Hmm?" asked the queen. "Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so-" "Accurate?" "Overtly direct," said the magus. Eddis laughed.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

There are male as well as female gossips.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

There's no smoke without fire.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.

We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?

We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.