Gossip Quotes - Page 22

• Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

  A. A. Gill

  Drama, Character, America

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• If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell on other people's actions, Westacott is for you. His linked studies of everyday vices offer elegant analysis of the goods that lurk in behavior that is usually condemned. This wise book is practical philosophy in the best sense.

  Mark Kingwell

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

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• Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

  Paul Scott

  Population, Servant, Rumours

  Paul Scott (1998). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.299, University of Chicago Press

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• Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

  James Goldsmith

  Humor, Disease, Flu

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• Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Sports, Sex, Media

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• Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

  Dave Hickey

  Complaining, Apologizing, Shut Up

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Wind, Want, Stuff

  "Ordinary Blues" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2005.

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• The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  House, Royal, Affair

  Marthe Bibesco (1930). “Some royalties and a prime minister: portraits from life”

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• Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Character, Analysis

  "Elizabeth Hardwick, The Art of Fiction No. 87". Interview with Darryl Pinckney, www.theparisreview.org. 1985.

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• If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

  Harvey Mackay

  World, Might, Corporations

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• Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Distance, Lying, Silence

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• I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Stars, Reality

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• It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

  Woody Allen

  Pornography, Knows

  "Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Men

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.49, BookBaby

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• The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

  Leon Edel

  Achievement, Secret, Links

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.

  Carole Landis

  Kindness, Secret, Femininity

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  Diane Ackerman

  Jobs, Work, Coffee

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• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Grace

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Feelings, Gone, Faults

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• Gossip is irresponsible communication.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Communication, Irresponsible

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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• Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

  Andre Norton

  Often Is, Rumor, Reports

  Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.273, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

  Shana Alexander

  Rumor, Sound, Wave

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

  Margaret Deland

  Amusement, Insult, Victim

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