Gossip Quotes

“It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.”
― Habeeb Akande

“Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters, pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: "everyone is entitled to know everything." But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Are you what others say and think you are?  Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.”
― Donna Lynn Hope, Willow

“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.”
― Jennie Churchill

“Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed.
“Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

“Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print”
― John Clare

“When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.”
― Debra Webb, Going to the Chapel

“Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement”
― George Bancroft

“After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.”
― Ian Ker, G.K. Chesterton: A Biography

“A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.”
― Linda Medley, Castle Waiting, Vol. 2

“For acting thus you will remain innocent among the hissings of the serpents, and like a sweet strawberry you will receive no venom from the contact of venomous tongues.”
― St. Francis de Sales

“Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.”
― Jayne Bauling, In Pursuit of Love

“„So ist es,“ sagte die Herzogin, „und die Moral davon ist – Mit Liebe und Gesange hält man die Welt im Gange!“
„Wer sagte denn,“ flüsterte Alice, „es geschehe dadurch, daß Jeder vor seiner Thüre fege.”
― Lewis Carroll

“You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.
“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love reading novels so much?”
― Donna Leon, Suffer the Little Children