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

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second. — Taylor Swift

Tara...seemed to digest gossip as voraciously as an owl, regurgitating it in the form of little pellets of dubious information. — Erin Saldin

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. — Ethel Merman

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ... — Arnold Schoenberg

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired. — Aminu Kano

I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her. — Emma Roberts

Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back. — Bob Burg

But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation. — John Le Carre

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

Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to — Martin Cruz Smith

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy. — Thomas Jefferson

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

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. — Oscar Wilde

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry

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

The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying. — Tyler Hamilton

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

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another. — John Dryden

The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you. — Monika Ramzy

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? — Leonard Ravenhill

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. — Carrie Fisher

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. — Dennis E. Adonis

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"
babbling gossips of the air. — Josh Billings

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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. — Anne Lamott

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. — P. J. O'Rourke

Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger. — Coco J. Ginger

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip. — Alicia Keys

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work. — Aminu Kano

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

Well, it's nice that at least the celebrity gossip survived. — Emily St. John Mandel

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. — Steve Maraboli

He's your son. Hear him out before you encourage the ugly gossip. — Meara Platt

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth. — Philip K. Dick

Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose — Anonymous

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt. — David Halberstam

I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip. — Tim Hawkins

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. — Beverley Mitchell

Gossip is instructive," said the Wizard. "It tells which way the wind is blowing. — Gregory Maguire

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable. — Tabitha Soren

Calumny is the offspring of Envy. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.] — Ovid

The news is glorified gossip. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same. — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

The difference is between saying something to a person, and saying something about a person. The first might be rude, but the second is always gossip. — Patrick Rothfuss

To actively improve the world
and change your life as well,
speak all the good you know,
and all the bad refuse to tell. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more. — William Makepeace Thackeray

This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency. — Amy Ewing

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

Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth. — Joyce Carol Oates

What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory. — Elbert Hubbard

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside. — Laurie Halse Anderson

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World! — Harvey MacKay

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them. — Criss Jami

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. — H.L. Mencken

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution. — Rick Warren

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity. — Steve Maraboli

Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice. — John-Talmage Mathis

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made
so faithful is the public. — Arnold Bennett

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. — Suzy Kassem

Remember, kiddo, gossip says a lot about people. But not the people who are talked about. Only the people who do the talking." — Charleigh Rose

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people? — Rachel Vincent

Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. — Yuval Noah Harari

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. — Dave Hickey

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. — Matt Drudge

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

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

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

Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip. — Howard Stern

Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. — Lord Chesterfield

I'll tell you a piece of news
I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell. — Anne Bronte

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. — Erica Jong

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided. — P.D. James

The Hinley pond-poet Herbert Miles had referred to us as "that gaggle o' geese who gossip gaily 'pon the gladdening green," and there — Alan Bradley

A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip. — Andrew Marr

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

I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them. — Merrill Markoe

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught. — Lemony Snicket

Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity. — Carole Landis

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. — Candace Bushnell

Gossip is unfounded bullshit. Opinions are ours by rights of the Constitution. — Carolyn Brown

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gossip is the social mosquito. — Myrtle Reed

Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear
what you KNOW! — Faith Brashear

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it. — Jess Walter

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.' — Jay McInerney

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder. — Alana Stewart

Gossip is the worst form of judging. — Nathan Eldon Tanner

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works. — Jane Smiley