Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Gossip.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor
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
Gossip is nature's telephone.
Sholom Aleichem
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
Mark Twain
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
Proverb
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Mor
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Yiddish Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
Pierre De Beaumarchais
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
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
Primo Levi
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Victor Hugo
