Gossip Quotes

“Biography is a higher gossip.”

“If we all said to people's faces what we say behind their backs, society would be impossible.”

“Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, idle minds and strengthens the brave.”

“The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue.”

“There is no protection against slander.”

“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”

“What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening.”

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

“Calumny, sir! You don't know what you're despising. I have seen the worthiest people nearly crushed by it.”

“Slander, my lord! You know not what you despise; I have seen the greatest of men brought low by it.”

“It is a matter of profound regret that a woman’s name should be bandied about by the vulgar.”

“The thing about being a writer is that you are just a gossip who is being paid for it, that's all it is.”

“Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“All literature is gossip.”

“Gossip and slander die at the ears of the wise.”

“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”

“Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum.”

“A gossip is a person who creates the smoke in which other people assume there's a fire.”

“Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.”