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

There are male as well as female gossips.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

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?

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!

When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.