Gossip Quotes - Page 7

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

Life would be boring without gossip.

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.

Tell tales out of school.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.