Oscar Wilde Quotes About Gossip

• If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Gossip, World

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Things In Life

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71

• It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Truth, Gossip

  A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip, Political, Scandal

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Differences, Gossip, Scandal

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

• History is merely gossip

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

• History is only gossip.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip

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