#sip

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#gossip #secrets #gossip

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people? ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#gossip

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#gossip

I give boring people something to discuss over corn. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#sensationalism #gossip

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#gossip

There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings. ↗

— Michelle Cooper

#royalty #gossip

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard ↗

— Jude Morgan

#society #gossip

You cannot believe everything you hear ↗

— Jude Morgan

#gossip #lies #truth #gossip

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#drunks #gossip #mistakes #night #police

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander