gossip

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement

Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.

Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another__ heart

What was really unfair about the whole thing was that Oma Kristel hadn't so much exploded as spontaneously combusted. But Gossip is Baron Münchhausen's little sister, and never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.

Men believe women are hopeless gossips, but women know men are. The poor creatures are worse than women in some ways, because they cannot admit to themselves that they are gossiping, or doubt the discretion of the individuals in whom they confide. 'Strictly in confidence, old boy, just between you and me...'.