Gossip Quotes - Page 6

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  Vanna Bonta

  Heard, Entertaining, Fascinating

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

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• For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

  James Elroy Flecker

  World, Tales, Sigh

  1913 'Brumana'.

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• Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Angel, Nurse

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• The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Tea, Age, Sauce

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• Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

  Ogden Nash

  Interesting, Speech, Good Things

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

  George Eliot

  People, Mind, Church

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Born, Ennui, Idleness

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• Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

  Octave Feuillet

  Indulge In, Rumor, Scandal

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• And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Secret, Knows

  "Gossip Girl". www.imdb.com. 2007-2012.

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• Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

  Erma Bombeck

  Baseball, Pastime

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• It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Women, Pieces, Rooms

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• Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

  Justin Timberlake

  Fake People, Truth, Reality

  "New Again: Justin Timberlake". Interview with Emma Brown and Rebecca Wallwork, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

  Barbara Walters

  Relationship, People, Show Me

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• She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

  George Meredith

  Ears, Littles, Social

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• It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

  Vanna Bonta

  Real, People, Experts

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

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Gossip is nature's telephone.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Nature, Telephones

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• While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Ideas, Facts

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Real, Giving

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• Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Taken, Measurement

  Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong (2002). “Conversations with Erica Jong”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Race, Scandal, Lovers

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• Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

  Paul Scott

  Lying, Heart, People

  Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion”, p.189, University of Chicago Press

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• Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

  Walter Winchell

  Today, Tomorrow, Headlines

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• There's no smoke without fire.

  Georgy Zhukov

  Fire, Smoke

  "Stalin's Generals" by Harold Shukman, (p. 359), 2002.

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• Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Long, Rumor

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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