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  • It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

    Funny   Truth   Gossip  
    A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)
  • Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

    Grandma   Kids   Gossip  
  • Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

  • The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.

    Golf   Boys   Talking  
  • Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde
  • There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71
  • Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

    Evil   Gossip   Rumor  
  • History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

    Taken   Gossip   Truth Is  
    GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”
  • The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

    Time   People   Gossip  
    "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 190, 1958.
  • Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

    Life   Lying   Careers  
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