Quotes and Sayings about Gossip
"Gossip is nature's telephone."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Nature, Gossip)
"I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Life)
"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Gossip)
"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Baseball, Gossip)
"I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere."
- Candace Bushnell
(Related: Time, Europe, Gossip, Party)
"All literature is gossip."
- Truman Capote
(Related: Gossip, Literature)
"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Truth, Evil, Gossip)
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Gossip)
"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
(Related: Gossip, News, World)
"Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Gossip)
"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Beginning, Gossip, Months, News)
"I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us."
- Hilary Duff
(Related: Celebrity, Gossip)
"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Women, Idea, Fact, Gossip, Theory)
"If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips."
- Penelope Fitzgerald
(Related: Scientists)
"Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback."
- Kate Fox
(Related: Women, Detail, Gossip)
"Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves."
- Kate Fox
(Related: Men, Women, Gossip, Talk)
"Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping."
- Kate Fox
(Related: Men, Time, Women, Difference)
"Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining."
- Kate Fox
(Related: Men, Women, Gossip)
"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."
- Billy Graham
(Related: Pet, Christian, Gossip)
"Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true."
- Kathy Griffin
(Related: Care, Gossip)
"Gossip is the Devil's radio."
- George Harrison
(Related: Devil, Gossip)
"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."
- Robert A. Heinlein
(Related: Beliefs, Gossip)
"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."
- Horace
(Related: Open, Will)
"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Gossip)
"Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Men, Women, Being, Gossip)
"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Gossip)
"I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Money, Successful, Gossip, Living)
"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Business, Gossip)
"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary."
- Barbara Kruger
(Related: History, Gossip)
"Gossip is more popular than literature."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Gossip, Literature, Popular)
"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need."
- Primo Levi
(Related: Nature, Gossip)
"I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft."
- James Lipton
(Related: Thought, Decision, Gossip, Question, Talk)
"It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Gossip)
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
- Phyllis McGinley
(Related: Gossip, Lovers, Race, Scandal)
"What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt."
- Gerald McRaney
(Related: Boxing, First, Gossip)
"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures."
- Ethel Merman
(Related: Gossip)
"I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors."
- Beverley Mitchell
(Related: Being, Criticism, Gossip, Ridicule, Rumors, Teenagers)
"Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Flattery, Gossip, Present)
"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Love, Promotion)
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Gossip)
"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Time, People, Gossip)
"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Family, Gossip)
"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
(Related: Love, Power, Truth, Direction, Gossip, Integrity, Word)
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: People)
"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."
- Zoe Saldana
(Related: Mother, Beer, Gossip, Sisters)
"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
(Related: Truth, Lie, People, Gossip)
"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession."
- Georg Simmel
(Related: Time, Men, Confession, Gossip, Secrecy, Temptation)
"PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux."
- Wallis Simpson
(Related: Habit, Girlfriends, Gossip)
"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
- Liz Smith
(Related: Dress, Gossip, News, Running)
"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
- Liz Smith
(Related: Dress, Gossip, News, Running)
"Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy."
- Liz Smith
(Related: People, Gossip)
"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Policy, Gossip, Help)
"Gossip is easy, politics is hard."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Politics, Gossip)
"Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic."
- Patricia Meyer Spacks
(Related: Gossip)
"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Destruction, Fire, Gossip, Tongue)
"At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know."
- Peter Stone
(Related: Work, People, Friends, Hollywood, Night, Theater, Will, Wishing, Word)
"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Gossip)
"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Women, Gossip, News, Old, Tea)
"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."
- Justin Timberlake
(Related: Truth, Gossip)
"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
(Related: Positive, Gossip, Listening, Saying, Years)
"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people."
- Barbara Walters
(Related: People, Will)
"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Gossip)
"Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline."
- Walter Winchell
(Related: Gossip, Today, Tomorrow)
"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
- Walter Winchell
(Related: Art, Gossip, Nothing, Saying)