Gossip Quotes - Page 12

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

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).

I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

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.

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.