Quotes
Quotes about Gossip
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out.
If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
..the people of Tudor England, like the modern Irish, were great talkers. One imagines their speech as rapid, bubbling, both earthily exact and carelessly malapropistic. It was perhaps a McLuhanesque medium, itself its own message and it exhibited the essential function of language - to maintain social contact in the dark.... Speech, when you come to think of it, is not a very exact medium: it is full of stumblings and apologies for not finding the right word; it has to be helped out with animal grunts and the gestures which, one is convinced, represent man's primal mode of communication. Take speech as a flickering auditory candle, and the mere act of maintaining its light becomes enough. Tales, gossip, riddles, word-play pass the time in the dark, and out of these - not out of the need to recount facts or state a case - springs literature.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Who gossips to you will gossip of you.
(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.
Gossip is what no one claims to likeâbut everyone enjoys.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
All literature is gossip.
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.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
