Gossip Quotes

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Ninon de L\'Enclos

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
Octave Feuillet

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

A long-tongued, babbling gossip.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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

Conversation is an exercise of the mind;gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Gossip is nature's telephone.
Sholom Aleichem

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Liz Smith

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.







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