Gossip Quotes

History is merely gossip

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

History: gossip well told.

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.