Conversation is an exercise of the mind, gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Anonymous
Gossip is the Devil’s radio.
George Harrison
The only gossip I’m interested in is things from the Weekly World News – ‘Woman’s bra bursts, 11 injured’. That kind of thing.
Johnny Depp
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard’s Almanack, July 1735)
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F.H. Bradley
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Liz Smith
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder
Walls have ears.
Proverb
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
Barbara Walters
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
P. J. O’Rourke
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Elbert Hubbard
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, ‘Why should I tell it?’
Johann K. Lavater
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Edgar Watson Howe
Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers
Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don’t.
Earl Wilson
Who gossips with you, will gossip of you.
Irish Saying
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously.
Elbert Hubbard
Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Anonymous
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
Anonymous
Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s headline.
Walter Winchell
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us.
Edward Wallis Hoch
Gossip: Something that goes in one ear, out the other, and over the back fence.
Anonymous
Gossip is nature’s telephone.
Sholom Aleichem
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
Historian. A broad – gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce
Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Phyllis McGinley
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
Dolley Madison
History is merely gossip.
Oscar Wilde
It is the gossip columnist’s business to write about what is none of his business.
Louis Kronenberger
Journalism is organized gossip.
Edward Eggleston
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Your friend has a friend; don’t tell him.
Chinese Proverb
Who gossips to you, will gossip of you.
Turkish Proverb
What some invent, the rest enlarge.
Jonathan Swift
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
Kate Fox
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
John Galsworthy
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
Barbara Kruger
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
Gossip is more popular than literature.
Hugh Leonard
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.
Erma Bombeck
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Herb Shriner
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
At every word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
I’m drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
Hilary Duff
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. Lawrence
But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
Marc Wallice
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller
They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
William Congreve
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
Dorothy Parker
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.
Anonymous
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it’s the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people’s hearts lie.
Paul Scott
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
Phocion