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. ~By Horace ~
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. ~By Will Rogers ~
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. ~By Primo Levi ~
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. ~By Elia Kazan ~
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. ~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. ~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. ~By Kate Fox ~
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. ~By Liz Smith ~
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux. ~By Wallis Simpson ~
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth. ~By Justin Timberlake ~
All literature is gossip. ~By Truman Capote ~
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves. ~By Kate Fox ~
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip. ~By Kate Adie ~
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere. ~By Candace Bushnell ~
Gossip is easy, politics is hard. ~By Tabitha Soren ~
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ~By Will Rogers ~
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. ~By Erma Bombeck ~
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining. ~By Kate Fox ~
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. ~By Gloria Swanson ~
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us. ~By Hilary Duff ~
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. ~By Erica Jong ~
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. ~By Joseph Conrad ~
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it. ~By Matt Drudge ~
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback. ~By Kate Fox ~
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them. ~By Tyra Banks ~
Gossip is more popular than literature. ~By Hugh Leonard ~
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. ~By Peter Stone ~
Gossip is the Devil's radio. ~By George Harrison ~
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ~By Walter Winchell ~
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ~By Erica Jong ~
Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy. ~By Liz Smith ~
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. ~By Robert Hughes ~
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. ~By Paul Scott ~
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. ~By Penelope Fitzgerald ~
I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip. ~By Zoe Saldana ~
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. ~By Richard Steele ~
Gossip is nature's telephone. ~By Sholom Aleichem ~
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
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. ~By Andrea Dworkin ~
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline. ~By Walter Winchell ~
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips. ~By Amos Oz ~
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. ~By Liz Smith ~
What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt. ~By Gerald McRaney ~
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. ~By Earl Wilson ~
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. ~By Beverley Mitchell ~
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. ~By Billy Graham ~
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. ~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago. ~By Marc Wallice ~
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. ~By Georg Simmel ~
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing. ~By Johnny Depp ~
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. ~By Louis Kronenberger ~
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ~By Will Rogers ~
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. ~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people. ~By Barbara Walters ~
I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures. ~By Ethel Merman ~
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft. ~By James Lipton ~
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. ~By Patricia Meyer Spacks ~
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable. ~By Tabitha Soren ~
Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true. ~By Kathy Griffin ~
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. ~By Matt Drudge ~
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. ~By Barbara Kruger ~
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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