651 Quotes About Gossip

Tell tales out of school.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

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.