Gossip Quotes - Page 8

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer a favor, who's available, who's under the protection of a jealous spouse. And being the first to get a piece of gossip is like engaging in insider trading: You can capitalize on an opportunity before anyone else can.

A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.