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A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

All literature is gossip.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.

A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

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

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

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.

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

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

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.