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Gossip Quotes

"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."

"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."

Phyllis McGinley, American Author

Gossip, Lovers, Race, Scandal

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"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."

"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."

Gloria Swanson, American Actress

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"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."

"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."

Johnny Depp, American Actor

Gossip, News, World

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"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."

"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Gossip, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Regret

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"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."

"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."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

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"Gossip is more popular than literature."

"Gossip is more popular than literature."

Hugh Leonard, Irish Dramatist

Gossip, Literature, Popular

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"But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team."

"But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team."

Jerry Jones, American Businessman

Gossip, Investment, Want

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"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."

"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."

Lawrence G. Lovasik, American Clergyman

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"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."

"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."

Matt Drudge, American Celebrity

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"Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic."

"Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic."

Patricia Meyer Spacks, American Writer

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"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

Mary Stewart, English Novelist

Gossip, Calumny, Whisper

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"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people."

"Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Gossip, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

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"Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you."

"Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Gossip, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Life

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"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."

"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Gossip, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

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"Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls."

"Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

Gossip, Bigotry, Judgment, Negativity

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"Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us...."

"Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us...."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Gossip, Truth, Life, Wisdom

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"Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong."

"Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Gossip, Truth, Mistake, Perception

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"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."

"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Gossip, Hope, Exaggeration, Skepticism

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"One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other."

"One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Gossip, Boredom, Bitterness, Behavior

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"Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip."

"Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip."

John Patrick Hickey, American Author

Gossip, Behavior, Language, Addiction

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