Gossip Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Listening, Rumor, Noses

  Stephen L. Carter (2007). “New England White”, Knopf

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

  Joseph Conrad

  Pages, Topics, Different

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• Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

  Conor Oberst

  Soul, Faces, Towns

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• The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

  Roxanne Roberts

  Chocolate, Serious, Indulgence

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Mom, Teenager

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• Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

  Saadi

  People, Evil, Wicked

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• Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.

  Jay McInerney

  Girl, Sex, New York

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• I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

  Jennie Garth

  Acting, Cameras, Moments

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• Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in unnecessary gossip and try to talk about spiritual subjects with others.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

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• The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

  Aminu Kano

  Doe, Pure

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• I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.

  Tim Hawkins

  People, Advice, Uptight

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2013

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• Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television.  There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved

  Lori Palatnik

  Sports, Hurt, Home

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• Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Smell, Devil, Foul

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

  George Washington

  Deserving It, Evil, Adequate

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.76

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• May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.

  Harold Wilson

  Government, Benefits, May

  Speech at a May Day rally in London on May 04, 1969. The Times, p. 1, May 05, 1969.

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• People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.

  Angelina Jolie

  School, Feel Better, Train Wrecks

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• Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

  George Harrison

  Children, Secret, Devil

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• Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.

  Peter Sellers

  Party, Should Have, Feet

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.

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• The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.

  Guy Debord

  Boredom, Sage, Toronto

  "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle". Book by Guy Debord, 1988.

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• Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Jobs, Stories, Senators

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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