Gossip
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
- Conrad, Joseph
- Conrad, Joseph
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
- Proverb
- Proverb
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
- Ouida
- Ouida
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
- Parker, Dorothy
- Parker, Dorothy
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies."
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
- Hugo, Victor
- Hugo, Victor
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Jong, Erica
- Jong, Erica
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
- Jack Holland
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Biography is a higher gossip.
- Winder, Robert
- Winder, Robert
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
- Fuller, Thomas
- Fuller, Thomas
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
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Lawrence, D. H.
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
- Bible
- Bible
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
- Edel, Leon
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pascal, Blaise
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation


















