Gossip Quotes

• Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Gossip
  • Oppressed

• I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Gossip

• Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • True
  • Gossip

• Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Helping
  • Communication
  • Constructive

• Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Rumor

• President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that show. I was so intimidated doing that show because I thought, 'Oh my gosh, those people are so young and gorgeous, and I'm a million years old, and I need a spray tan, and I'm going to be wearing all these fabulous clothes.'

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • People
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Focus
  • Rumors
  • Rumor

• Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • True
  • Gossip

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Baby
  • Bible

• What a pity men didn’t gossip about their wives the way women did about their husbands, then they would soon learn that their own wife wasn’t the only one with shortcomings…

  

  Celia Fremlin
  • Men
  • Wives
  • Shortcomings

• Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

  

  Anna Godbersen
  • Gossip
  • Tool
  • Distract

• There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • World
  • Real
  • Fear

• I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Gossip

• History is merely gossip.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Gossip
  • Merely

• Sometimes it’s the little, insignificant stuff that can tear you down. I try not to read gossip as a rule, but the other day a website ran an article with a picture of me wearing sweatpants on the way to the gym. The writer asked, 'Why does this petite beauty insist upon dressing like a massive man?' *pause* Because I like to be comfortable.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Why
  • Picture
  • Gym

• Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Integrity

• Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Mean
  • Faces
  • Gossip

• No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Interest
  • Bottom

• I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Gossip
  • Focused
  • Treasurer

• Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

  

  Octave Feuillet
  • Women
  • Rumor
  • Indulge In

• When I was asked to write an article about what it was like to work with my husband on a TV show, I assumed it was because people thought it would be titillating. He's a creator/writer/producer, I'm an actress; there must be lots of gossip, in-fighting, maybe some crazy-sexy time on the set, right? Actually, it's pretty tame.

  

  Christa Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Money
  • Demonstration
  • Columns

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