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

Love, Power, Truth

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

Judge, Person, Speak

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Pet, Real, Person

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Guilty

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

Women, Old, Read

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

Live, Ashamed, Town

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

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

Woman, Interested, News

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Family, Live, Ashamed

Gossip is the Devil's radio.
George Harrison

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

Everybody, Claims, Enjoys

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck

Baseball, National, Pastime

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Room, Sit, Piece

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott

Truth, Lie, Shows

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
Earl Wilson

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark

Truth, Evil, Around

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

Fire, Tongue, Slow

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'Rourke

Present, Flattery, Objects

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
Justin Timberlake

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong

Oppressed, Opiate

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

Criticism, Rumors, Dealing

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell

Art, Nothing, Saying

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Industry, Biggest

Gossip is nature's telephone.
Sholom Aleichem

Nature, Telephone

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Greed, Apathy, Movement

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

Women, Men, Fact

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
Carrie Fisher

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
William Shatner

Time, Lives, Stand

Gossip is more popular than literature.
Hugh Leonard

Literature, Popular

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