Gossip Quotes

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
-Oscar Wilde

"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
-William Shakespeare

"No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue."
-Sir Philip Sidney

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
-Bertrand Russell

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."
-Cato the Elder

"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."
-Phyllis Mcginley

"Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline."
-Walter Winchell

"Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic."
-Patricia Meyer Spacks

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
-Will Rogers

"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

"Who gossips with you will gossip of you."
-Irish Sayings

"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

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

"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth."
-Will Rogers

"Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?"
-Phocion

"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way."
-John Tudor

"Gossip is nature's telephone."
-Sholom Aleichem

"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."
-Will Rogers

"Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't."
-Earl Wilson

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you."
-Spanish Proverb

"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
-Joseph Conrad

"The article is based on my experience with gossip on the show, and in my personal life."
-Brianne Burrowes

"The fact that it's gossip is exactly why I wanted to keep these private."
-Billy Payne

"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory."
-Elbert Hubbard

"HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip."
-Ambrose Bierce

"I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us."
-Hilary Duff

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
-Richard Steele, Sr.

"It's a place to shop, eat and gossip."
-Tony Turner