Gossip Quotes - Page 5

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

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?

Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don’t know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don’t ‘bloom’ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,— adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

The news is glorified gossip.

I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, "If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy". Then again my memory wasn't so sharp when I took drugs. Some of what was said about me might be true. At worst it gave me jerk-off material.

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one way, from the woman to the man. And when society stacks up all the odds against a woman, she’d better not count on the man’s support. She has no way out other than to end her own life. And I’m in love with an Indian. I must be crazy.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

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

If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.Words you can’t have back, so they linger.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self disruption.

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

I heard the little bird say so.

Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is "god-sibling"? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

Men believe women are hopeless gossips, but women know men are. The poor creatures are worse than women in some ways, because they cannot admit to themselves that they are gossiping, or doubt the discretion of the individuals in whom they confide. 'Strictly in confidence, old boy, just between you and me...'.

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.

Maybe taming my tongue will be good for me in the end. But it's pretty hard when you've got a world filled with idiots from Drunkopolis.

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.

The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

Gossips are like ants” she caressed his head “the moment you spot one, there are already many anthills around but don’t look for them because if you do, you’ll find them and they in turn would bite you and cause you pain, and pain would cause you to lose focus.

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.

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

Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.