A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
Gossip is conversation about people.
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...
Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.
Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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.
gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
