Best 588 quotes in «gossip quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

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

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

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 bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

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

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

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.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

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.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Hey, bro...So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.