Gossip
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Bierce, Ambrose
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Ozick, Cynthia
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilde, Oscar
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
- Jong, Erica
- Jong, Erica
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
- Mcginley, Phyllis
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?
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
- Proverb, American
- Proverb, American
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
- Harvey, William
- Harvey, William
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
- Plautus, Titus Maccius
- Plautus, Titus Maccius
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Shaw, George Bernard
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Thoreau, Henry David
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
- John Tudor
- John Tudor
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
- Meredith, George
- Meredith, George
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
- Earl Wilson
- Earl Wilson
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
- Hugo, Victor
- Hugo, Victor
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Sir Philip Sidney
Journalism is organized gossip.
- Eggleston, Edward
- Eggleston, Edward
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.
- Edward Wallis Hoch
- Edward Wallis Hoch
Rumor grows as it goes.
- Virgil
- Virgil


















