Gossip Quotes

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

~ China Miéville

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.

~ Ron Suskind

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

~ Edward R. Murrow

The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying.

~ Tyler Hamilton

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

~ Steve Maraboli

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the 'plank' of pride in our own eye we are not capable of dealing with the 'speck' of need in someone else. We are often like the Pharisee who, completely unconscious of his own need prayed God, I thank you that I am not like other men (Luke 18:11). We are quick to see - and to speak of - the faults of others, but slow to see our own needs. How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else - even when we are unsure of the facts. We forge that a man who stirs up dissension among brothers by criticizing one to another is one of the six thing which the Lord hates (Proverbs 6:16-19)

~ Jerry Bridges

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

~ Janice Valencia Capulso

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When gossip starts, be deaf.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

~ Michael Chabon

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

~ Criss Jami

It seems a lot of Christians are quick to condemn the world and write its inhabitants off as lost causes. It’s odd, though, Jesus never did. He healed and lovingly confronted. Jesus engaged and walked among his enemies, not to breathe fire upon them, but to breathe life into them. He could only change their lives through being part of their lives. He didn’t write books, he didn’t constrain his preaching to just the synagogues. He didn’t stand aloof bad mouthing the world and his enemies to his disciples in the safety of an insular compound. No, Jesus deliberately walked and lived amongst those he came to serve.

~ Katherine J Walden

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

~ Andy Warhol

Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.

~ Steve Maraboli

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

~ Alexander Cockburn

Those we murder with our mouths often live longest

~ Anonymous

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

~ Linda Medley

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

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

~ Julian Fellowes

People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

~ Marcia Lynn Mcclure

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.

~ Authoress Redd

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting from foot to foot, his waterproof trousers rattling like the bulls' bladders that boys use to learn swimming. Sterlingov angrily spat out his cigarette. 'Well? What about?' 'A . . . about a secret matter ,' Alyoshka whispered. Dozens of ears floated around them in the dust waves; the whisper was heard, and it ran on like a spark along a gunpowder wick. Alyoshka's secret message, the mysterious special clothing, the deacon's catastrophe-all this was too much. The atmosphere was charged with thousands of volts, and something was needed to discharge the electricity, to clear the air. (X)

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

~ John Le Carré

I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder.

~ Maria V. Snyder

Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he doing now?' When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? it is felt that he will not be found to be, like most of us, doing nothing in particular. There is an indefinite sense that he must be invading some region of singularity , good or bad. The devout home is that he is doing well. The secret faith is that he is making a mess of it...So the subject recurred: if he were making a fortune and a name, so much the better for him, if he were making a tragical figure in the world, so much the better for a narrative

~ Thomas Hardy

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.

~ Jayne Bauling

Gossip and drama are different stages of the same intoxication… the first is the buzz, the latter is the hangover.

~ Steve Maraboli

Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process of biological evolution of the human mind. Just like the evolutionary expression of aggression in men, gossiping is an evolutionary feature of the female psychology. Women trade various secrets from their personal experiences through gossiping in order to create connection and intimacy with their female peers.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ William Shakespeare

The public talk -- and injuriously! -- Well! are you ignorant of the little importance of such talk? -- The public speak! -- It is not the world, it is only the despicable part of it -- only the ill-natured, who upon the smallest evidence pass rash judgements, and anticipate events, the wise wait for them and are silent.

~ Joseph Boruwlaski