Gossip Quotes

These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a man's character, and everything that man does is made to seem underhanded, suspect, fraught with double motives.

~ Paul Auster

Talk for people and not about them. Unless you have love in your heart, refrain from discussing another person.

~ Charbel Tadros

Talking behind someones back does not make you better. It only demonstrates how much of a coward you are for not saying it in the persons face.

~ Unknown

I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

~ Joanna Cannon

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

~ Agatha Christie

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.

~ Gugu Mona

Are you holding her?” Wrath asked. There was a pause. “As soon as I get this bow tied in the back—hold on, girlie. Okay, up you go. She’s in a pink dress that Cormia made her by hand. I hate pink. I like it on her, though—but keep that to yourself.” Wrath flexed his hands. “What’s it like?” “Not totally hating pink? Pretty fuck—ehrm, frickin’ emasculating.” “Yeah.” “Do not tell me Lassiter’s been metrosexualizing even you. I heard he talked Manello into going for a pedicure with him—but I’m praying that’s just gossip.”-Wrath & Zsadist

~ J.r. Ward

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

~ Rick Warren

...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

~ Tom Holt

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well. When Christopher was doing his workout, Pilates would bring one of his assistants over to watch, rather as the house surgeon brings an intern to study a patient with a rare deformity. ‘Look at him!’ Pilates would exclaim to the assistant, ‘That could have been a beautiful body, and look what he’s done to it! Like a birdcage that somebody trod on!’ Pilates had grown tubby with age, but he would never admit it; he still thought himself a magnificent figure of a man. ‘That’s not fat,’ he declared, punching himself in the stomach, ‘that’s good healthy meat!’ He frankly lusted after some of his girl students. He used to make them lie back on an inclined board and climb on top of them, on the pretext that he was showing them an exercise. What he really was doing was rubbing off against them through his clothes; as was obvious from the violent jerking of his buttocks.

~ Christopher Isherwood

Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.

~ Winston Graham

When you meet new people and you notice they gossip about people behind their backs just imagine what they say about you behind yours.

~ Divineconspiracy

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Over the next few days, every knowing glance and furtive look reminded me how much small towns loved to gossip. My mother delighted me each day by telling me what she’d heard. I’d pushed Leo behind a snap pea display at the farmers’ market and wrestled him to the ground. I’d offered him my bagel repeatedly, refusing to take no for an answer. I’d been seen out behind the market, helping him load up his vegetables and been caught holding his cucumber. That was my favorite.

~ Alice Clayton

Men believe women are hopeless gossips, but women know men are. The poor creatures are worse than women in some ways, because they cannot admit to themselves that they are gossiping, or doubt the discretion of the individuals in whom they confide. 'Strictly in confidence, old boy, just between you and me...'.

~ Elizabeth Peters

Don't be fooled...If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.

~ Steve Maraboli

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

~ Agatha Christie

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics. Or masturbation. - Johnny Depp

~ Nigel Goodall

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

~ George Eliot

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

~ Greg Iles

...but if that's all that they are, that's all that they should be, —rumors. Rumor & gossip will always be an unfortunate consequence of living life in accordance to the decisions we make. People talk, —everyone talks, but if it isn't the truth, or merely only a fraction of it, why let it bother you if has no direct effect on how we choose to carry out the rest of our day?

~ Michael Anthony Arnold

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self disruption.

~ Gugu Mona

Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.

~ Heron Carvic

people who believed the world to be an undignified,inglorious place, and who spent their evenings and nightstalking on and on about the mistakes others had made. They werepeople whom solitude had made into the judges of the world,whose verdicts were scattered to the four winds for whoever caredto listen

~ Paulo Coelho

Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us....

~ Deyth Banger

Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.

~ Sarah Bakewell

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?

~ Katarina Bivald

If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details.The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.

~ Linda Howard

I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?

~ Gail Carriger

Gossip till the cows come home.

~ John Le Carré

You must learn to ignore what people say,” Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. “You’ll be much happier that way.” Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. “I’ve learned that while gossip about others is often true, it’s never true when it is about oneself.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Coinman lets out another legendary explosive from his hindquarters!

~ Pawan Mishra

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Ruby's was where I'd long picked up delicious bits and pieces of small-town troubles, and of course, Ramona Jean was my very best source.

~ Steven Norton

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

~ Victor Hugo

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

~ Laila Lalami

Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart

~ Steven Aitchison

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.

~ David Halberstam

In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man––what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?

~ John Steinbeck