The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0. 01 percent of the gossip is true.
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Don't indulge in gossip. . . . People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.
Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.
With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?
I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.
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.
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.
I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
