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

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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 the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.
- Liz Smith

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
- Kate Fox

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
- Earl Wilson

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
- Phyllis McGinley

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.
- Zoe Saldana

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.
- Gerald McRaney

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.
- Kathy Griffin

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

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
- Candace Bushnell

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.
- Ethel Merman

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
- Andrea Dworkin

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
- Wallis Simpson

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
- Louis Kronenberger

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
- Barbara Kruger

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
- Kate Fox

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
- Elia Kazan

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
- Frank Howard Clark

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
- Johnny Depp

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
- Hilary Duff

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
- Billy Graham

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
- Robert A. Heinlein

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
- Beverley Mitchell

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
- Gloria Swanson

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
- Primo Levi

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
- Matt Drudge

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
- Patricia Meyer Spacks

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
- Matt Drudge

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
- P. J. O'Rourke

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
- James Lipton

Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
- Marc Wallice

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.
- the Woody Allen movie Manhattan (1979)

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

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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