Gossip Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
If it is abuse why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!
R. B. Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet
There is a demon that puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles into space.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) French author,
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell (1897-1972) American columnist
Gossip: sociologists on a mean and petty scale.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American president
Nobody’s interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper (1890-1966) American film actress, gossip columnist
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
Barbara Walters (b. 1931) American television personality
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author
At every word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet Confidante.
One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French scientist, philosopher
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
Logan Pearsall Smith (18654946) Anglo-American essayist
They come together like the coroner’s inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
William Congreve (1670-1729) English dramatist
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
C. C. Colton (1780-1832) English author
In scandal as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters
Backbite. To “speak of a man as you find him” when he can’t find you.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
Tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Saint Paul (3-67) Aposde to the Gentiles
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith (1828-1909) English author
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it’s the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people’s hearts lie.
Paul Scott (1920-1978) British author
