quotes about Gossip
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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.
-- Adam Levine -
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
-- Alexander CockburnSource : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.185, Verso
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
-- Alexander Pope -
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
-- Alice Miller -
President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.
-- Alveda King -
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
-- Aminu Kano -
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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.
-- Aminu Kano -
Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
-- Amy ArgetsingerSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.
-- Andre NortonSource : Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.273, Baen Publishing Enterprises
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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
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Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
-- Andrew Marr -
The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.
-- Anna Wintour -
It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
-- Anne Hathaway -
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
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The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
-- Barbara Kruger -
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
-- Barbara Walters -
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News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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.
-- Bertrand Russell -
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
-- Beth Ditto -
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I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
-- Beverley Mitchell -
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
-- Booth TarkingtonSource : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com
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Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
-- Booth Tarkington -
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It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,†(fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).
-- Brian P. Cleary -
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies
-- Carl Bernstein -
Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.
-- Carole Landis -
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
-- Cato the Elder -
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Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
-- Cecily von Ziegesar -
...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar -
And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
-- Cecily von ZiegesarSource : "Gossip Girl". www.imdb.com. 2007-2012.
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You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl
-- Cecily von Ziegesar -
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Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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.
-- Chris Hedges -
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
-- Christopher Pike -
The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.
-- Chrystos -
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My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
-- Craig Shoemaker -
Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.
-- Croft M. Pentz -
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.
-- Daphne Guinness -
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The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
-- Dave Barry -
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.
-- David M. Raup -
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
-- David Riesman -
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
-- Dawn PowellSource : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
-- Dolley Madison -
gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
-- Douglas Malloch -
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
-- Earl Wilson -
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
-- Edgar Degas -
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
-- Eleanor Robson BelmontSource : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”
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I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
-- Elia Kazan -
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.
-- Elizabeth DrewSource : Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”
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Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.
-- Ellen Buckingham Mathews -
I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her.
-- Emma Roberts -
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.
-- Esther M. Friesner -
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I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures
-- Ethel Merman -
I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
-- Ethel SmythSource : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
-- Euripides -
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
-- F. H. BradleySource : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 20), 1930.
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Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.
-- Felder RushingSource : Felder Rushing (2011). “Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and All Seasons”, p.36, Chelsea Green Publishing
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My ***** contemplates those who talk behind my back.
-- Francis Picabia -
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
-- Frank A. Clark -
I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
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But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.
-- Gary SnyderSource : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
-- Georg Simmel -
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.
-- George Eliot -
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.
-- George Eliot -
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Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.
-- George Harrison -
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
-- George Meredith -
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.
-- George Washington -
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
-- George Washington CableSource : George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press
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Little said is soonest mended.
-- George WitherSource : Shepherd's Hunting, 1615.
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There's no smoke without fire.
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "Stalin's Generals" by Harold Shukman, (p. 359), 2002.
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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.
-- Gerald McRaney -
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The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
-- Gloria Swanson -
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.
-- Gore Vidal -
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
-- Gore Vidal -
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
-- Gore Vidal -
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Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.
-- Grant CardoneSource : Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017
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You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
-- Gregory David Roberts -
The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.
-- Guy Debord -
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
-- H. L. Mencken -
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With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.
-- Harlan EllisonSource : interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
-- Harold Wilson -
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
-- Harry S. Truman -
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.
-- Heather Hart -
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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.
-- Hector Hugh MunroSource : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics
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I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
-- Hedda HopperSource : Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
-- Henry FieldingSource : 'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11
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