The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
History is merely gossip
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.
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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.
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
All literature is gossip.
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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