Quotes about gossip
gossip
History is only gossip. Oscar Wilde
gossip political scandal
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
gossip reputation good-company
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. Louis Kronenberger
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 frogs
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. George Herbert
gossip littles ears
She poured a little social sewage into his ears. George Meredith
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 people solitude
Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude. Ingmar Bergman
gossip people rumor
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. Jack Levin
gossip rumor sound
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier. Shana Alexander
gossip accountability
[Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking. Scott Eastwood
gossip towns littles
There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it. Kin Hubbard
gossip ears tongue
Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.] Plautus
gossip people annoying
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
gossip mosquitoes social
Gossip is the social mosquito. Myrtle Reed
gossip stories use
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true. Mario Balotelli
gossip people dying
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves. Mason Cooley
gossip information gathering
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information. Mercedes Lackey
gossip amusement insult
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. Margaret Deland
gossip feelings faults
by some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ...
gossip great letters soldiers teenage teens typical words younger
These teens are not much younger than some of the soldiers their letters are going to. But their words show some great insights as well as the typical teenage gossip and humor.
gossip proverbs sore throat
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
gossip negative people
A lot of people use gossip as a negative thing,
gossip wish may
The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength. Libba Bray
gossip people stories
I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load. Hedda Hopper
gossip television vacuity
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. Malcolm Muggeridge
gossip columnists concerned
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. Gloria Swanson
gossip people world
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? Rand Paul
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
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton
gossip ears inquisitive
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. Horace
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