By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.
It's funny what you really see when you're the subject of the completely bizarre gossip magazine industry. It's just like, 'WHAT?!?' All this stuff with Emilie [de Ravin, his costar in Remember Me] as well. The tabloids say stuff like 'They went on a date to an Indian restaurant. ' We were doing a scene! There's a film crew there!
Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.
A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.
I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.
The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.
A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and live and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person - love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no way, no space to chatter. Each moment life is flooding you so vitally - where is the time to gossip and chatter?
It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back. . . Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits. . . All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip. . . so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Gossip is easy, politics is hard.