#Gossip Quotes

“Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.”

“What the great ones do, the less will prattle of”

“Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.”

“No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.”

“On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.”

“Foul whisp'rings are abroad.”

“His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.”

“For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.”

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

“In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.”

“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”

“In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.”

“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

“I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.”

“Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.”

“There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.”

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

“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.”

“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.”

“If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.”

“I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.”

“People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.”

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

“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”

“it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.”

“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.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

“Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.”

“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.”

“Those women like to see their tongues dance.”

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

“History is merely gossip”

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.”

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”

“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”

“When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.”

“When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.”

“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.”

“Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.”

“Talkin', talkin, talkin', talk. Baby, let's just knock it off. They don't know what we been through. They don't know 'bout me and you.”

“A business tip, you never know who's having "pillow talk" with one another. Watch what u say, who u say it to, & WHO u talk about.”

“Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.”

“Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.”

“What some people invent the rest enlarge.”

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

“Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,To tell what every schoolboy knows.”

“Fond of those hives where folly reigns,And cards and scandal are the chains,Where the pert virgin slights a name,And scorns to redden into shame.”