gossip

1.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

- Oscar Wilde

2.

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

- Conrad, Joseph

3.

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

- Proverb

4.

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

- Ouida

5.

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

- Parker, Dorothy

6.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

7.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies."

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

8.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

- Hugo, Victor

9.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

- Jong, Erica

10.

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

- Jack Holland

11.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers

12.

Biography is a higher gossip.

- Winder, Robert

13.

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

- Fuller, Thomas

14.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

- Mcginley, Phyllis

15.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

- Lawrence, D. H.

16.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

- Bible

17.

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

- Edel, Leon

18.

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

- Will Rogers

19.

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

- Pascal, Blaise

20.

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation