The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
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.
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.
Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
Gossip is more popular than literature.
Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
How much an ill word may empoison liking!
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Foul whisp'rings are abroad.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.
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