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...

I’m kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement

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.

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

A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow...

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.

You’ll come to learn that many times, the people you have problems with are not really the people you have problems with; but in actuality, the problems lie in the premises of everybody else in...

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

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.

Father Brendan Flynn: “A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew – I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great...

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

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things...

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.

Listen carefully how people speak about others to you. That’s the way they speak about you to others.

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