Reputations are just history in rumor form.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

— Voltaire

“She was the goddess of gossip and rumor, not the goddess of thoroughly fact-checked information. Some people, Principal Zeus included, didn't seem to realize…

— Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your…

— Conor Oberst

Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do…

— Sonia Choquette

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

— Lewis Mumford

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

— Alexandre Dumas

My back is not a voicemail. Say it to my face bitch.

— Superman

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

— Oscar Wilde

Destroy gossip by ignoring it

— Mariane Corbito

My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story and was given slightly to malapropisms. And she…

— David Jason

I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and…

— Blake Lively

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Don't give me truth, just give me gossip And skeletons from people's closets, I wanna be normal And millions buy it, I am blinded…

— Benjamin Zephaniah

“Slander does to a soul what cancer does to a cell.”

— Criss Jami

Gossip is just drama, waiting to start.

— Author Name