GOSSIP QUOTES

quotations about gossip

Gossip quote

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

LIZ SMITH

Natural Blonde


Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

WILL ROGERS

The Illiterate Digest

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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH

attributed, America's Royalty: All the Presidents' Children


A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

OUIDA

Wisdom

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For this social disease of gossip resembles that distemper which, at the present moment, threatens the chestnut forests of America. It first attacks the noblest trees. Like it, too, it would seem to baffle all remedies, and like it, it would seem to be the work of indestructible microscopic worms.

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

"The Psychology of Gossip", Vanishing Roads and Other Essays


There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay.

SARAH DESSEN

Keeping the Moon

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History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

GORE VIDAL

Julian

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

BOOTH TARKINGTON

The Magnificent Ambersons


Trying to keep from gossiping is like trying to stem the tide from coming into shore. It would be wonderful if we could confine all our conversations to neutral objects or abstract, general intellectual subjects, but, unfortunately, few of us really care to discuss such deep, meaningful and world-shaking topics. What we're really interested in is the real dirt on someone even if it happens to be exaggerated, distorted or false.

ARNOLD M. LUDWIG

The Importance of Lying


A gossiper is the devil's postman.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

GEORGE HARRISON

"Devil's Radio"

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As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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Listening to gossip is like eating candy. It tastes good. It is nice to be in the loop, and it feels affirming to have someone listen to us. But gossip also goes down to our spiritual waistlines and changes who we are.

CHRIS BRAUNS

Unpacking Forgiveness


A mind conscious of its own rectitude fears not what is said of it, but will bid defiance to and despise shafts that are not barbed with accusations against honor or integrity.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Gouverneur Morris, Jan. 28, 1792

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There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time, and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The School for Scandal

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

WALTER WINCHELL

attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations


Gossip is like an old joke--there's always somebody around who hasn't heard it.

E. C. MCKENZIE

14,000 Quips and Quotes


Gossips are well versed in the defects of others, but they never think of trying to discover their own.

ANNIE E. LANCASTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

DIANA WYNNE JONES

Howl's Moving Castle