Gossip Quotes

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

~ Jonathan Haidt

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

~ Jess Walter

Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

~ Beth Gutcheon

A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The gossip died in the fire they started, longing for warmth they could not find or keep when they did. And no one spread the word, about the gossips' death.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.

~ Harper Lee

I’ll tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.

~ Anne Brontë

When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you.

~ Donald L. Hicks

If you don’t believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?

~ Donald L. Hicks

That woman could spread gossip faster than the flu in a whorehouse.

~ Jean Oram

Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.

~ Neal Stephenson

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you; It is easier to be critical than correct- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

~ Kenneth W. Estes

There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, “But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.

~ Andrew Holleran

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

Knowledge is currency here....

~ Joanne Harris

Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

~ Courtney Milan

Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.

~ Lauren Francis-Sharma

there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.

~ Jonathan Franzen

There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you go around ruining the reputation of others. Because what goes around comes around for sure.

~ Rachitha Cabral

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of people in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much

~ Lewis Carroll

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

~ Ella Leya

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

~ Michelle Franklin

If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.

~ Anthony Liccione

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

~ L.m. Montgomery

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

~ Robert K. Massie

It was only too bad that to gossip and support mean ideas was easier and more enjoyable, really, than to keep quiet and know in silence that the true story can never be told, articulated in a way that will tell the whole truth. Even if it is better to be quiet, quietness will never reign. People talked, even the best of them.

~ Amanda Coplin

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

~ Victor Hugo

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

~ William Shakespeare

Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose

~ Anonymous

Spreading rumours is our national past time

~ Monica Ali

A Gossip is a dung beetle in disguise ....

~ M. Jackson

Gossips are like ants” she caressed his head “the moment you spot one, there are already many anthills around but don’t look for them because if you do, you’ll find them and they in turn would bite you and cause you pain, and pain would cause you to lose focus.

~ S.a. David

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

~ Michael Lee West

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth.This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

~ Jean Lorrain

Gossip never goes away, no matter where you are in life.

~ Miranda Kenneally

The news is glorified gossip.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reputations are just history in rumor form.

~ 12 Dates Of Christmas

Oh, you mean fairy gossip, Eric,” she giggled. “I get the picture,” she said fluttering her lacy wings. “Don’t look so sad, Eric. There isn’t a day that passes when your nosy beak doesn’t find its way into someone’s business. I’m sure you’ll find the best-ever story before

~ Caz Greenham