Gossip quotes
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"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic."
"You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned."
"The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication."
"You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]"
"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."
"Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child."
"History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place."
"Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm."
"When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip."
"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."
"Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
"Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk."
"Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle."
"I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day."
"It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography."
"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!"
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors."
"The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy."
"Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt."
"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
