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• The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  World, Awareness, Whole

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• If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Would Be, Half, Affair

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.478, eKitap Projesi

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• Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

  Frank A. Clark

  Evil, Rumor, Gossiping And Rumors

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• 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.

  Horace

  Ears, Inquisitive, Rumours

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• If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Funny, Witty, Nice

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Dirty, Rumor, Taste

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13

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• History is merely gossip

  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• 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.

  Lisa Kirk

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

  Shana Alexander

  Squash, Rumor, Trying

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• Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

  Elbert Hubbard

  Vices, Enjoyed

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• He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Weed, Flower

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• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Political, Scandal, Morality

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• 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.

  Matt Drudge

  Thinking, Labels, Bedroom

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• 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.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Love, Past, Race

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• It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Writing, Columnists

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Teenager, Thinking, Criticism

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• All literature is gossip.

  Truman Capote

  Literature

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.337, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

  Kate Adie

  Media, Literature, Want

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• Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

  Kate Fox

  Men, Long, Subjects

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• That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

  Izaak Walton

  Business

  Izaak Walton (1847). “The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.49

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• If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Science, Scientist, Evidence

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

  George Bancroft

  Life, Truth, Character

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.64

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• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  Tabitha Soren

  Knowing, Doe, Helping

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• Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Trust, Never Trust, Tales

  "Coming to You Live: The Oscar Hopefuls!" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2012.

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

  Alexander Pope

  Rumor, Enlargement, Something New

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.130

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