G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Gossip is easy, politics is hard.”
“Gossip is for women. We wear trousers, we must say things.”
“Gossip is hardly uplifting.”
Source: Gineger My Story
“Gossip is irresponsible communication.”
Source: A plain brown rapper
“Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.”
Source: A plain brown rapper
“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”
“gossip is just the small change of conversation.”
“Gossip is more popular than literature.”
“Gossip is multiplying like breeding rabbits in the Church today. We may pretend it isn't, but we're only lying to ourselves. We like to put pretty little bows on it in the Church today. We like saying that we're just passing on some information so that so-and-so can be prayed for by our other sister. We like to justify it in our heads, but sin is sin so I'm going to call it that.”
Source: Cursing the Church or Helping It?: Exposing the Spirit of Balaam
“Gossip is nature's telephone.”
“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.”
Source: The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection
“Gossip is not adopted by the bored. It is an art of discourse adopted by those who have experienced absolutely nothing thrilling in their lives; they have never really fallen in love or casually spoken to a complete stranger, and they never dreamt of doing anything extraordinary. They are a group of people with dull lives and souls.”
Source: Ashes, Wine and Dust
“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.”
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
“Gossip is the biggest hindrance to building trust and productivity in organizations across America.”
Source: Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions
“Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.”
“Gossip is the Devil's radio.”
“Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.”
Source: Chains
“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”
“Gossip is the social mosquito.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Gossip is the sound of jealously.”
“Gossip is the worst form of judging.”
“Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously”
“Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.”
“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
“Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.”
“Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.”
“Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.”
“Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.”
“Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.”
“Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“Gossip spreads because people have nothing to do! Get yo life chile!”
“gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.”
“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
Source: THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)
“Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.”
“Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.”
“Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.”
“Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.”
“Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.”
Source: Gossip: The Inside Scoop
“Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.”
“Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.”
“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.”
“Gossiping is an unhealthy pastime snack”
“Gossiping is the plague of little towns.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“Gossiping with Aparna Mahadani is great. I can tell her whatever I want and she won't tell anyone because she never listens to me.”