Gossip Quotes - Page 4

I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even more exciting, if you know the people. But if the gossip's about yourself, it's very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I'm a victim and that hurts because it's not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair.