Quotes about gossip

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

First law of gossip—there’s no point knowing something if somebody else doesn’t know you know it.

History is the world’s most egotistical gossip.

“The biggest liar in the world is They Say,’” I muttered. “Douglas Malloch.”

Copper River was a small, tightly knit town. If gossip was a competitive sport, we’d have been sending teams to the Olympics and bringing back gold.

Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other's discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.

“But remember, it was all hearsay.”

“In Washington, hearsay’s the same as gospel truth.”

…I had learnt that the most effective way to spread a story was to tell it to one or two Arabs under a pledge of secrecy.

It (Gossip) comes so naturally to us that it seems as if our language evolved for the very purpose.

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other

She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.