Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
A writer's business is minding other people's business. . . all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
no one ever gossips about the virtues of others
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.
gossip. . . was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Memoir. . . satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television. There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her. " "Her secretary of the archives," murmured the magus. "Hmm?" asked the queen. "Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so-" "Accurate?" "Overtly direct," said the magus. Eddis laughed.
Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.