Keyword: Gossip

A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

(1925 – 1990) American actor
Communication Conversation People Self Speech

A gossip columnist is someone who uses dirt to make a mountain out of a molehill.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Communication

In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say, “did he leave a will?” but “did he leave a diary.”

(1946 – ) American actress & singer
Hollywood Places

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic
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Gossip: One with a keen sense of rumor.

Definitions

Gossip: Anything that goes in one ear and over the back fence.

Communication Definitions Speech

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me… it's gossip.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist
Communication Speech

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist
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If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit
Communication Conversation Speech

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

(1923 – ) American journalist & gossip columnist
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Gossip: Hearing something you like about someone you don’t.

(1907 – 1987) journalist & columnist
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Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Communication Self Speech

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor
Communication Speech

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

(1908 – 1992) English actor
Communication

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist
Communication Speech

She’s got tongue enough for 10 rows of teeth.

Miscellaneous

Gossip is nature’s telephone.

(Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich) (1859 – 1916) Jewish author & humorist
Communication

Gossip: Something negative that is developed and then enlarged.

Definitions

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Communication Speech

I believe in talking behind peoples’ backs; that way, they hear it more than once.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist
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