Gossip Quotes
54 quotations about Gossip
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
Authors on Gossip
Sholom Aleichem
American Proverb
Myrtle Barker
Pierre De Beaumarchais
Henry Ward Beecher
Bible
Ambrose Bierce
Chilo
Chinese Proverb
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charles Caleb Colton
William Congreve
Joseph Conrad
Danish Proverb
Henry Fielding
Thomas Fuller
Hedda Hopper
Elbert Hubbard
Victor Hugo
Jewish Proverb