Gossip Quotes

Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

~ Mercedes Lackey

Washingtonians love the So-and-so is spinning in his grave cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great dead American would be scandalized over some crime against How It Used to Be. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

~ Mark Leibovich

Don't you be worried or annoyed, Sancho, about any comments you hear, or there will never be an end to them. Keep a safe conscience and let people say what they like: trying to still gossips' tongues is like putting up doors in open fields. If the governor leaves office rich they say he's a thief, and if he leaves it poor they say he's a milksop and a fool.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

~ Don Roff

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

~ Sean Covey

Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.

~ Habeeb Akande

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

~ Anthony Liccione

Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

~ Terry Pratchett

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

~ Stacey Lee

Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.

~ Bianca Scardoni

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.

~ Habeeb Akande

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.

~ Pandora Poikilos

I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy. Then again my memory wasn't so sharp when I took drugs. Some of what was said about me might be true. At worst it gave me jerk-off material.

~ Aiden Shaw

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

~ Henry Adams

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

~ Tahir Shah

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those--in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists....

~ Joseph Brodsky

Let them judge you.Let them misunderstand you.Let them gossip about you.Their opinions aren’t your problem.You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity.No matter what they do or say,don’t you dare doubt your worthor the beauty of your truth.Just keep on shining like you do.

~ Scott Stabile

But that was last year,” I protested as we walked through school on Tuesday, three days beforeHalloween. “I’m serious, you know how people are. They forget about things.”“Oh, really?” Roux said, then turned and smiled at a brunette passing us. “Hey, Julia, what’s up?How are things?”“Slut,” Julia responded, and kept walking.Roux just looked back at me knowingly. “You were saying?

~ Robin Benway

Unlock joy in any situation!True understanding and mutual respect do not bridge blames, destructive, negative criticisms, false excuses and gossips. To express disappointments and ill-feelings are normal however to gossip around certain people and events in order to put another person down and destroy one's credibility is a form of bullying whether one expresses it publicly or privately.Beware of segregation, regionalism, individualism, discrimination, stereotyping, destructive criticism, false accusations, biased wrong assumptions, prejudice, senseless comparison and unwanted competition because life is much more meaningful to live for where there is unity and harmony.

~ Angelica Hopes

Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.

~ Janet Fitch

Someone said: “Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you areor tell me who is your friend and I'll tell you who you are ...etc..My life experience oppose the above mentioned sayings.I would say, Tell me how do you respond to gossip and I will tell you who you are Tell me how do you solve your problems and I'll tell you who you are

~ Mahsati Abdul

Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

~ Paul Tobin

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

~ Susan Hill

Women prefer speaking to talking.

~ Raheel Farooq

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

~ Alexander Pope

Biography is higher gossip.

~ Robert Winder

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

~ Thomas Fuller

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes for his crass stupidity and hideous face.

~ Leonard Woolf

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ Earl Wilson

Gossip needs no carriage.

~ Russian Proverb

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

~ Ogden Nash

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

~ Saki

No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

~ Hesiod

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.

~ Kin Hubbard

The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

~ John Hay

If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth