Gossip is a common topic that often attracts attention. Many people have shared their thoughts on gossip through insightful quotes. These quotes often contain wisdom and caution about the negative effects of gossip. They encourage individuals to be mindful of the words they speak and the impact gossip can have on others. Quotes about gossip remind us that spreading rumors and engaging in idle talk can harm relationships and reputations. They serve as a reminder to think before speaking and to focus on building trust and understanding instead of spreading rumors and negativity.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. — Erica Jong
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. — Walter Winchell
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. — Joseph Conrad
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
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. — Anna Godbersen
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. — Proverbs
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
Those who gossip with you will gossip about you. — Edgar Allan Poe
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. — Marvin J. Ashton
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. — Bertrand Russell
Discussion: What is right? Argument: Who is right? Gossip: Nothing is right. An insensitive time pass, polluting each others' mind. — Mahatria Ra
Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. — Stefan Zweig
Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. — William Greider
Short Gossip Quotes
Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you. — Jay-Z
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
All good things must come to an end. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Who gossips to you, will gossip of you. — Turkish Proverbs
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. — Paulo Coelho
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. — Cato The Elder
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? — Sean Covey
It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip. — Filipino Proverbs
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham
Gossip Image Quotes
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Avoid Gossip Quotes
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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
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
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. — Patricia Meyer Spacks
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
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
Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you. — Lord Chesterfield
I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl." — Cecily von Ziegesar
Gossip Girl Quotes
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. — Benjamin Franklin
My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. — Blake Lively
And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl — Cecily von Ziegesar
With friends like these, who needs hallucinations? — John Astin
You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you — Cecily von Ziegesar
...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted. — Cecily von Ziegesar
Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you — Cecily von Ziegesar
No Gossip Quotes
A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception. — Jaggi Vasudev
Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No. I just gotta focus on making money. Cause ain’t no going back. I’m gonna be famous forever. — Cardi B
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 dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick. — Bob Dylan
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. — Oscar Wilde
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
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. — Ernest Hemingway
I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging." — Gretchen Rubin
Did God really say that I couldn't tell my friends what so and so did yesterday? Does that really count as gossip? No, it's just venting, and venting is healthy right? Wrong! We are supposed to think about the things that are praiseworthy, not gossip worthy. — Heather Hart
Malicious Gossip Quotes
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip. — Lorrie Moore
Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives. — Nancy Hale
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
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. — Phyllis Mcginley
There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along. — P. J. O'Rourke
Friends Gossip Quotes
I only f— with people who are secure enough to be happy for me and hype me up. I don’t want any ‘friends’ who fall silent during my success. — Cardi B
I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time. — Khushwant Singh
I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious. — Amy Poehler
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats. — Margaret Atwood
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. — Peter Stone
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day. — John Hay
I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made. — Blaise Pascal
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call! — Taylor Swift
I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation. — Max Gluckman
I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle. — Harriet Walter
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
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. — Octave Feuillet
Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm. — Gottfried Keller
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. — Gore Vidal
Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity. — George Bernard Shaw
Celebrity Gossip Quotes
Even if I ain’t the famous-est, the richest, the best – as long as I know I kept it real and didn’t backstab nobody – I sleep good at night. — 21 Savage
I’m not gettin’ involved with the hype. I’m too rich to get into a fight. — Cardi B
Who’s the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I’m the real queen! — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
It’s not even the female rappers that are catty – it’s the fans. They just want that beef. — Cardi B
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us. — Hilary Duff
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all. — A. A. Gill
Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now. — Andy Bell
I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute! — William Shatner
I love jezebel.com for the latest on fashion, style, and celebrity gossip. I also love gawker.com for New York celebrity sightings, and galleycat.com and trashionista.com for book news. — Meg Cabot
I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular! — Nicolas Ghesquiere
Gossiping And Rumors Quotes
Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what’s real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases. — Ryan Higa
The biggest liar in the world is They Say. — Douglas Malloch
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. — Shana Alexander
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
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures. — William Shakespeare
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth. — Justin Timberlake
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. — Will Rogers
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort. — Eleanor Robson Belmont
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. — Learned Hand
If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do? — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. — Joyce Meyer
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty. — Ruhollah Khomeini
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. — Al-Ghazali
When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know. — Rumi
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. — Leonard Ravenhill
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters. — Chris Hedges
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. — Lysa TerKeurst
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
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde
Here the hens cackle, there they lay eggs — Greek Proverbs
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. — Eric Hoffer
All that’s said in the kitchen should not be told in the hall. — Scottish Proverbs
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job. — Cecily von Ziegesar
They talk. We live. Who cares what they say? — Jay-Z
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. — Jean Rostand
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. — Richard Steele
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves. — Kate Fox
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses. — Tamara Mellon
Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway. — Felder Rushing
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