Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
. . . don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.
Gossip is the social mosquito.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her.
A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it. " But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.