Quotes on Gossip

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.

Every man alone is sincere._x000D_ At the entrance of a second person,_x000D_ hypocrisy begins._x000D_ We parry and fend the approach_x000D_ of our fellow-man by compliments,_x000D_ by gossip, by amusements, by affairs._x000D_ We cover up our thought from him_x000D_ under a hundred folds.

I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily_x000D_ _x000D_ by saying nothing, doing nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ and being nothing.