He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

There is one more thing,” said Mr. Peabody. “Now you must go and pick up all the feathers.” … “I don’t think it’s possible to pick up all the feathers,” Tommy replied. “It would be...

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

Women prefer speaking to talking.

The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.

The important thing isn’t what other people think you are; it’s who you are.

I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell.

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.

People always did like to talk, didn’t they? That’s why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are...

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Don’t pretend like you know me ’cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li’l rotten fruit.

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.

The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a particular story is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance. It...

The worst thing about talk … is that there’s no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

‘Gossip Girl’ came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn’t wait for the next one.

Those we murder with our mouths often live longest

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

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I’m showing right now by talking to you like this.

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth’s sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

It’s none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

First law of gossip – there’s no point knowing something if somebody else doesn’t know you know it.

Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is “god-sibling”? It’s the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the...

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Well, it all comes to this, there’s no use trying to live in other people’s opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

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

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer,” he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. “How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

What people say and feel about you when you’ve left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they’re depicted as celebrities, it’s not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that’s true. Sometimes, they’re worse.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

At school, the news that Pia Kolvenbach was moving to England and that her parents were divorcing had circulated with lightening speed. Suddenly I was no longer ostracized for being the Potentially Exploding Girl, but...

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn’t that be satisfying?

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

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

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

Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others...

People always slow down for a train wreck. It’s like junk food. If you don’t feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don’t understand...

I’d never really babysat. I feel like I’m Blair, or ‘Gossip Girl.’ A teenager, basically – and now suddenly I’m a mom?

Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.

whispering wind.” But what are these secrets of the breeze? I don’t know, but I don’t want a gossip to stand downwind of me.

Fofocas se propagam como a peste negra, não importa a época ou local. Sempre acompanhada de uma boa dose de veneno — e não muita preocupação com a verdade —, espalhar um boato mentiroso é...