Gossip Quotes - Page 3

We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

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

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

Journalism is organized gossip.

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

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.