Quotes about gossip

You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

In the Red Keep a man did his best to hold his tongue. There were rats in the walls, and little birds who talked too much, and spiders.

Whether they believe the story or not, they delight to tell it.

The smallfolk are always eager to believe the worst of their lords.

Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.

Gossip and reputation make sure that what comes around - a person who is cruel will find that the others are cruel back to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity allow karma to work here on earth, not in the next life. As long as everyone plays tit-for-tat augmented by gratitude, vengeance, and gossip, the whole system should work beautifully.

The function of gossip is to create an “in group” bond by creating an “out group” enemy.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

Her eyes flipped down through the usual scandal, gossip, and politics, noting that there didn’t seem to be much difference between them anymore.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

Whatever my husband's faults may be, it can only aggravate the evil for me to hear them from a stranger's lips.