Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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.
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
The literature has become too vast to comprehend. . . It is. . . difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. . . . There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data. . . gossip.