Gossip Quotes - Page 13

• I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

  Ralph Peters

  War, Misery, Bitter

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• When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

  Richard Wiseman

  Nice, People, Negative

  Richard Wiseman (2009). “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot”, p.58, Anchor

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• Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.

  B. C. Forbes

  Golf, Boys, Talking

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• Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?

  Darren Hardy

  Successful, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jun 26, 2014

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• People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, People, Female

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

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• A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.

  Brendon Burchard

  Meaningful, Drama, Silly

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• gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

  P. D. James

  Giving, Commodity, Marketplace

  P. D. James (2010). “A Taste for Death”, p.292, Vintage

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• Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

  Josh Billings

  Echoes, Air, Definitions

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• The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Talent, Persuasion, Propaganda

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629

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• Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ignorance, Female, Active

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• I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Media, People

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• There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.

  Alice Oswald

  Real, Government, Voice

  "Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize" by Alice Oswald, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Night, Men

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• If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Would Be, Faces

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All think what other people think;
  All know the man their neighbor knows.
  Lord, what would they say
  Did their Catullus walk that way?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Thinking, People

  "The Scholars" l. 9 (1919)

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• I think someone's sexual orientation is great fodder for gossip. But again, it's non-news to me or anyone who knows me.

  Paul Marcarelli

  Thinking, Know Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

  Mario Balotelli

  Stories, Use, Using Me

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• Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Family, People, Affair

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• It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ignorance, Looks, May

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• One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Vanity, Behind My Back, Conversation

  Logan Pearsall Smith, Edwin Tribble (1984). “A chime of words: the letters of Logan Pearsall Smith”

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• What happens is some of the characters I've played have voices that are so different from my own, that it would be ridiculous if I would dip in and out of that voice in between takes to ask for a coffee, or something. Or to gossip about whatever was going on.

  Toby Jones

  Coffee, Character, Voice

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Calumny Is, Envy, Offspring

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• Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Fashion, Fighting, Laughing

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Speak, Easy, Anxious

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• There are always those Gossip Girl walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.

  Chace Crawford

  Girl, Eye, Talking

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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