"History is idle gossip about a happening whose……" — Gore Vidal
"History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place."
More Gossip Quotes
- Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their… — George Bancroft
- Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. — Ambrose Bierce
- Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. — Ambrose Bierce
- Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. — Erma Bombeck
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be… — Vanna Bonta
- He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. — Bertolt Brecht
- I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the… — Candace Bushnell
- Gossip is nature's telephone. — Sholom Aleichem
- I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. — Truman Capote
- All literature is gossip. — Truman Capote
- Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. — Dante Alighieri