Gossip Quotations

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

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.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

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.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

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

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

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

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

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.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'

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.

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

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

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

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

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

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.

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

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

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

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created.

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

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

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

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?

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

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

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures

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

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

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

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

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

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

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

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

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

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

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

We're just like the media. We gossip about things, and we always wondered what kind of receiver or tight end he would be. He's been great.

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Word gets around quickly in Nashville. It's a big city, but it's got that small-town gossip aspect to it. If you have something to offer, it doesn't stay a secret for very long. We kept at it ... Sony (Epic Records) turned me down twice before they gave me a record deal.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.