Gossip Quotes - Page 9

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

History is merely gossip

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.