gossip quotes

  • Widgongel wif word gespringeth. A roving woman gives rise to gossip.

    -Anonymous
    c.900  Maxims I, l.64.

  • 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.

    - George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
      Daniel Deronda, bk.2, ch.13.

  • For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

    -James Elroy Flecker
      'Brumana'.

  • It's anindulgencetosit ina roomand discuss yourbeliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

    - Lillian Florence Hellman
      Sara. Watch on  the Rhine, act 2.

  • Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

    - Sir Bernard Ingham
      Speech, 5 Feb.

  • Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

    - Erica ne  e Mann Jong
      Fear of Flying, ch.6.

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