651 Quotes About Gossip

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

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

I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.