Quotes about gossip
gossip ancient myth
Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
gossip house towers
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. Shirley Jackson
gossip sides spread
Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side. Ralph Waldo Emerson
gossip brain wish
A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.
gossip journalism antidote
That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip. Scott Pelley
gossip man point says
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it. Oscar Wilde
gossip looks paper
If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip. Bernie Sanders
gossip literature
All literature is gossip. Truman Capote
gossip people culture
I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand. Patton Oswalt
gossip coward disease
It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip! Pope Francis
gossip bombs terrorist
The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
gossip pieces relief
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. Primo Levi
gossip too-late appetite
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished. Pico Iyer
gossip people fiction
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them. Vikram Seth
gossip sublime promise
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. Samuel Johnson
gossip may roaring
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Samuel Butler
gossip together reputation
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. William Congreve
gossip ears trumpets
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. William Cowper
gossip would-be boring
Life would be boring without gossip. Vladimir Putin
gossip rumor half
If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do? Thomas Chandler Haliburton
gossip doe affair
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. Victor Hugo
gossip indignant doings
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
gossip boredom sage
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
gossip people honor
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. George Bernard Shaw
gossip frogs
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. George Herbert
gossip shock interest
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. F. H. Bradley
gossip littles tongue
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle. Euripides
gossip behind-my-back ass
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. Francis Picabia
gossip people mind
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
gossip trying vampire
Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto. Cassandra Clare
gossip devil radio
Gossip is the Devil's radio. George Harrison
gossip dating awkward
The hot gossip in Washington is that Condoleezza Rice might have a new boyfriend. Secretary of State Rice is being linked to Canada's Foreign Minister, Peter MacKay. It's gotta be awkward dating a fellow diplomat. Like today, MacKay had to promise Condi he would get permission from the U.N. before he invaded her. Jay Leno
gossip history merely scandal tedious
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.