Thoughts of Gossip Quotes in English with Images

Gossip quotes in English encapsulate the intricate nature of human curiosity and the profound impact that rumors can wield on interpersonal relationships. They often serve as reflections of the societal dynamics surrounding communication, emphasizing both the entertainment value that gossip can provide and its potential to inflict harm on individuals' reputations and social standings. For instance, sayings like "Gossip is the art of saying nothing, and still leaving everything to the imagination" convey the idea that rumors, although frequently devoid of substantial content, have the power to manipulate perceptions and distort reality. This particular quote illustrates how the mere act of sharing information—even if it's vague or unfounded—can ignite imaginations and lead to significant misinterpretations.

Moreover, phrases such as "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people" establish a stark distinction between constructive, meaningful conversations focused on intellectual pursuits and the trivial nature of gossip that revolves around individuals. This delineation invites reflection on the nature of discourse and highlights the difference between dialogue that contributes to personal growth and that which merely fosters negativity. The wisdom embedded in these expressions serves as a poignant reminder of the delicate balance between sharing news and perpetuating harmful rumors.

By delving into these insightful quotes, one can gain a deeper understanding of the multifaceted nature of social interactions. Gossip, while sometimes perceived as a harmless pastime, can also carry significant weight in shaping perceptions and influencing relationships. These quotes reveal the complexity of social engagement and the intricate dance that occurs between communication, reputation, and the underlying motives that drive our conversations. Ultimately, they encourage a critical examination of the role gossip occupies in our lives, urging individuals to recognize its potential consequences while navigating the social landscape.

Thought of the day Gossip

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

- Paul Scott Thoughts

Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.

- Israelmore Ayivor

Don't live a life full of gossip and negative things. Life is not intended to be spent like that but with love, understanding, forgiveness, positiveness and a God fearing soul. Be free and happy in the arms of loving God.

- Jennifer Aquillo

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

- Honoré de Balzac

A very powerful thing to do, when confronted with the issue of gossip in your life, is to recognize that you are about to go into your cocoon, giving in to your misguided justifications. Before you slip into that cocoon, shake it off and get back into the present moment.

- Amir Fathizadeh

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

- Robert Ludlum

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

There’s nothing more poisonous to a community than rumors and gossips. They taint the good character of those who effortlessly stand out. They provide mediocre individuals with a means to become relevant. They set in like gangrene and eat away at the sense of decency that differentiates humans from animals.

- Wiss Auguste

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

- Criss Jami

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

- Henry David Thoreau

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

- Booth Tarkington

Gossip Quotes List

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

- Gossip Quotes by Dianne Sylvan

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

- Gossip Quotes by Dianne Sylvan Download or Share

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

- Gossip Quotes by Dianne Sylvan

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don’t.

- Earl Wilson Download or Share

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

- Gossip Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

- L.M. Montgomery Download or Share

Gossip is nature’s telephone.

- Sholom Aleichem

Gossip is nature’s telephone.

- Sholom Aleichem Quotation

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

- Joseph Conrad

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

- A Quotation From Joseph Conrad

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. 

- Liz Smith

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

- Gossip Quotes by Liz Smith

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

- Justin Timberlake

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

- Justin Timberlake

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil - there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.

- Frank A. Clark

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil - there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.

- Frank A. Clark

Gossip is poison.

- Gisele Bundchen

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

- Ginger Rogers

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

- Proverb

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

- Walter Winchell

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

- Erica Jong

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

- Joseph Conrad

People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

- Spanish Proverb

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

- Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

- Janice Valencia Capulso

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

- Paul Scott *

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

- Gore Vidal

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

- Erma Bombeck

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

- Will Rogers

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

- Spanish proverb

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

- Sonia Rumzi

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

- Gail Carriger

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

- Dave Barry

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

- Bertrand Russell

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

- Will Rogers

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

- William Shakespeare

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

- Diana Wynne Jones

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

- Richard Steele

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

- Gail Carriger

A gossip's mouth is the devil's postbag.

- Gaelic Proverbs

All literature is gossip.

- Truman Capote

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

- Steve Toltz

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

- Gore Vidal

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

- Erma Bombeck

The gossip mill runs on estrogen.

- Kim Harrington

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

- Marilyn Monroe

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

- Gossip Quotes by Edward Wallis Hoch

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

- Oscar Wilde

Live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

-Will Rogers

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

- Anonymous

This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.

- Amy Ewing

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

- John Tudor

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

- Oscar Wilde

She doesn't have time for womanly gossip. She's got the world to discuss with like-minded men.

- Nitya Prakash

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

- Mercedes Lackey

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

- Phocion

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

- Mark Twain

There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.

- Molly Harper

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

- Meg Cabot

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Gossip is an imperative evolutionary characteristic that enables a community to stand strong and united.

- Abhijit Naskar

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

- George Eliot

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 is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they’re trying to relay to you.

- John Lydon

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.

- P.D. James

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

- Douglas Adams

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

- Gossip Quotes by Bertrand Russell

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say

- Gossip Thought by Anonymous

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

- Gossip Quotes by Cato the Elder

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

- Gossip Quotes by Cato the Elder

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

- Gossip Quotes by Sir Philip Sidney

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

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And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

- Kathleen O'Dell

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

- Georg Simmel

All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.

- Tiffany King

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'why should I tell it?'

- Johann K. Lavater

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

- Lisa Kirk

People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

- Marcia Lynn McClure

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

- Pico Iver

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

- Lawrence G. Lovasik