Gossip Quotes

What some invent the rest enlarge.

~ Jonathan Swift

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

~ Spanish Proverb

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

~ Beryl Pfizer

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

~ Walter Wine Hell

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

~ Lemony Snicket

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

~ Bertrand Russell

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

~ Oscar Wilde

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

~ Gail Carriger

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

~ Gregory Maguire

There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.

~ Sarah Dessen

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

~ Felder Rushing

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

~ Booth Tarkington

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

~ Mercedes Lackey

I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

~ Aimee Bender

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

~ Steve Toltz

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

~ Brian P. Cleary

This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.

~ Amy Ewing

It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

~ Sherwood Smith

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.

~ Vera Nazarian

The gossip mill runs on estrogen.

~ Kim Harrington

I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

~ Meg Cabot

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

~ Laurence Sterne

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of ton

~ William Shakespeare

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

~ Jude Morgan

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

~ Robert Ludlum

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

~ Dianne Sylvan

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began,“but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

~ Tracy Chevalier

Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!

~ Agatha Christie

Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.

~ William Shakespeare

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

RUMOUR:Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

~ William Shakespeare

I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust, and I inherited, at far too early an age, a fortune which not only enabled me to indulge my tastes in the most expensive manner imaginable, but which made me an object of such interest that everything I did was noted, and talked of. That's heady stuff for greenhorns, you know! There was a time when I gave the gossips plenty to talk about. But do give me credit for having seen the error of my ways!

~ Georgette Heyer

How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insult it was that she'd come at all and did anyone really think she was beautiful with those oversize features anyway.

~ Anna Godbersen

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

~ Paul Scott

At school, the news that Pia Kolvenbach was moving to England and that her parents were divorcing had circulated with lightening speed. Suddenly I was no longer ostracized for being the Potentially Exploding Girl, but the new attention was worse. I could tell that the girls who sidled up to me and asked with faux-sympathetic smiles whether it was true were doing it on the basis of discussions they had heard between their own parents, to who they would report back like scouts. Soon there would be nothing left of me at all, nothing real: I would be a walking piece of gossip, alternatively tragic and appalling and, worse of all, a poor thing.

~ Helen Grant

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

~ Sonia Rumzi

What was really unfair about the whole thing was that Oma Kristel hadn't so much exploded as spontaneously combusted. But Gossip is Baron Münchhausen's little sister, and never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.

~ Helen Grant

My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, Im not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere. Besides, in a city you are anonymous; the chances of being picked out as Kristel Kolvenbach's granddaughter would be virtually zero. But in a small town -- well, small towns everywhere are rife with gossip, but in Germany they raise it to an art form.

~ Helen Grant