Quotes About No Gossip

“I don't like repeating gossip, so listen up.”

— Jane Seabrook

“Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama are subtly infused with facts, altering the truth in a similar way to how dramatists twist true stories to create greater excitement.”

— Lance Morcan

“You really love to gossip, don't you?" he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.
"Yes, I suppose I do," she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. "You think that's why I love reading novels so much?”

— Donna Leon

“No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.”

— Hesiod

“Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.”

— Robert Ludlum

“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.”

— Kathleen O'Dell

“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ... of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, "In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the satirist." The objective is fertile procedure. Is it not? Jacob Bronowski says in The Saturday Evening Post that science is not a mere collection of discoveries, but that science is the process of discovering. In any case it's not established once and for all; it's evolving.”

— Marianne Moore

“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.”

— Thomas McGuane

“A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”

— Billy Graham

“So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip ... In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Hinley pond-poet Herbert Miles had referred to us as "that gaggle o' geese who gossip gaily 'pon the gladdening green," and there”

— Alan Bradley

“The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.”

— Penn Badgley

“According to the Talmud, loshon hara kills three people: the one who speaks it, the one who hears it, and the one about whom it is told. 'Kill' may strike the modern reader as a bit hyperbolic, but when you think of all the friendships lost, careers stunted, and opportunities thwarted as a result of gossip among women, violent language seems appropriate. We cause serious collateral damage to the advancement of our sex each time we perpetuate the stereotype that women can't get along.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“I also heard that Lord Maxwell keeps a goat in his bedchamber, but you don't see me sending someone to milk it. One mustn't let idle gossip govern one's actions.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”

— Christopher Pike

“I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“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

“I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.”

— Julie Bowen

“Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.”

— P.D. James

“Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.”

— Hilary Duff

“Gossip is unfounded bullshit. Opinions are ours by rights of the Constitution.”

— Carolyn Brown

“These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.”

— Ian Fleming

“I look away from him, replying sarcastically, Well, you can tell JT and Pete for me that the next time they hold a knitting bee and gossip circle, I could use a new sweater!”

— Amy A. Bartol

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.”

— Henry Miller

“The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.”

— David M. Raup

“How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How often do we gossip because we want to appear "in the know,"or because we are trying to make ourselves appear better than someone else? The Bible's command is clear: ["Have regard for good things in the sight of all men" (Romans 12:17 NKJV)].”

— Billy Graham

“Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.”

— Ally Sheedy

“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

“Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.”

— Herb Shriner

“Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.”

— David O. McKay

“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

“Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).”

— Jack Kornfield

“If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.”

— Shams Tabrizi

“Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously”

— Elbert Hubbard

“It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do not jump the gun because of gossip.”

— Jeanne Phillips

“Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!”

— Erica Jong

“The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.”

— Carl Sandburg

“My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.”

— Queen Rania Of Jordan

“We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.”

— Harold Wilson

“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

“Gossip is irresponsible communication.”

— Rita Mae Brown

“The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.”

— Dave Barry