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  • Have you ever taken a sober look at any of the mutants who run these Hollywood-gossip sites? What a crew! None of them could ever, ever be stars, which is why they're always trying to "take the piss" from those they envy.

    Running   Stars   Taken  
    Source: love-and-pop.com
  • There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

    Character   Years   Names  
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128
  • I really try to understand what people are saying and answer as honestly as I can. But sometimes it's like they try to tie you into knots. That's why I mostly steer clear of the popular press. I try not to read . . . Well, I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

    Book   People   Gossip  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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)
  • 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.

    Jealousy   Heart   People  
  • Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

    Reality   People   Gossip  
  • Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

    Gossip   Rumor   Sound  
    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

  • I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m a movie'. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.

    Gossip   Naked   Pay  
  • Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

    Gossip   Ancient   Myth  
  • Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

    Prayer   Gossip   Praying  
  • trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

    Squash   Gossip   Rumor  
  • The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

    Men   Gossip   Enemy  
    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.51, Modern Library
  • Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

    Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.51, Bantam
  • Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

    Hate   Journey   Gossip  
  • Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

    Fog   Gossip   Cynical  
    Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.387, Penguin
  • In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

    Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

    Dirty   Gossip   Rumor  
    'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13
  • To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

    Fate   Men   Medicine  
    Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.38, New Directions Publishing
  • No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

    Voice   People   Gossip  
  • Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

    Gossip   News   Garbage  
    Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017
  • A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.

  • A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

    People   Gossip   Vices  
    Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
  • Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

    "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.
  • We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

  • The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

    Gossip   Tree   Fruit  
  • Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

    Book   Reading   Mean  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press
  • Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

    The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
  • What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

    Lying   Roots   Evil  
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