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The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.
— Theresa Sjoquist, Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit
I don't know enough to have any regrets
— Vince Grabin
When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise.
— Theresa Sjoquist, Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit
Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.
— Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom
None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.
— James Vescovi, Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
— Leonard Woolf
In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.
— Theresa Sjoquist
Perhaps once in a lifetime we meet someone who has the ability to inspire us in one brief meeting, who can confront not one but two life-threatening illnesses with remarkable courage – and instil hope in others in the face of the greatest adversity.Jennifer Roberts had all of those qualities – and so many more.
— Paul  Roberts, Make It Happen
The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.
— James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler
— Sheana Ochoa, Stella! Mother of Modern Acting
It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you.If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.
— James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?
It's strange how things seem to come full circle. You know what I mean? I'm sure you do. The way your life seems to drift along with no set path, then something good happens to you and you can trace the line that brought you there back to a specific disappointment or rejection you suffered in the past. It's nice that things can level out that way.
— James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?
I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.
— Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet
The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level.
— Phil Baker, Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist
Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.
— Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet
When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.
— Antonio Russo, Wrestling with the Devil
Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods, but by the seemingly unknown and weak'. Such a worldview is inherent in the fairy-tale (and Christian) idea of the happy ending in which the dispossessed are restored to joy; but perhaps Tolkien was also struck by the way it had been borne out in the Great War, when ordinary people stepped out of ordinary lives to carry the fate of nations.
— John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
— Alfred Nobel
Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I'll kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you.
— David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-consuming grief.From GLASS HALF FULL
— Sarah Jane Butfield
In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man.
— Terry Lee Rioux, From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley
For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.
— Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.
— Clare Mulley
May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.
— Christine Granville
Do not follow other's quotes,because you're the one who knows about yourself ,and what is suitable for you. everyone has their own quotes. So make yours too.
— Yoshitha indrachapa
The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, If I Am Assassinated
I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back
— Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave
Gregor flushed as he went on: "The entire content of the Confesions could be put into one single sentence in the book: when Augustine addresses God, saying: 'Thou hast made us for Thyself and our heart is unquiet until it rests in Thee.' This sentence, my lords and friends, is immortal. It contains the very heart of religion.
— Louis de Wohl
The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
— B. Traven
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law.
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, If I Am Assassinated
The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit. We also need a regular systematic study of the Scriptures. We cannot maintain our spiritual life without it any more than we can maintain our physical bodies without proper nourishment. We also need to let what we study become a vital part of our daily lives. Take it to the store, the office, the school room, etc. Take it, and apply it wherever you go.
— G. Campbell Morgan
It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.
— Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other’s side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.
— Janet Malcolm, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word "law". It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees.
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, If I Am Assassinated
The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
— Mike Parry
There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.
— Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
— Wan-Ling, Wong, Time to live: Jannie Tay's journey
The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality,and he would kill him.
— André Frossard
My purpose in beginning the John Wimber biography project was to honor his rich legacy of teaching, his extraordinary character, and the positive & beneficial impact his life has had on my journey as a 'follower of Christ'. I esteem John Wimber's teachings, writing, and impact upon the Body of Christ to be equal with that of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, John F. Banks, D.L. Moody, and Leanne Payne.
— R. Alan Woods, John Wimber: Naturally Supernatural
To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.
— Argentina Palacios, Standing Tall: The Stories of Ten Hispanic Americans
I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?
— Rollis Fontenot Jr, Growing Up When Times Were Simple
Monotony is the only reward of the cautious
— A. Somebody, The Autobiography of A Somebody
I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come... -Susanna Wesley
— Arnold A. Dallimore, Susanna
I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
— Benjamin Franklin
I'm not Mickey Mouse, I'm a human being.
— Mitch Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured.
— President James A. Garfield - courtesy of Millard's "Destiny of the Republic"
Perhaps the most difficult thing about loving and helping an addict, which most people who haven't been through it don't understand, is this: every day the cycle continues is your new worst day. When looked at from the outside it seems endless, the same thing over and over again; but when you're living it, it's like being a hamster on a wheel. Every day there's the chronic anxiety of waiting for news, the horrible rush when it turns out to be bad, the overwhelming sense of déjà vu - and the knowledge that, despite your best efforts, you'll probably be here again. Even so-called good days are not without their drawbacks. You enjoy them as much as you can, but in the back of your mind there's the lurking fear that tomorrow you could be back to square one again, or worse.
— Mitch Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter
I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye
— Mark Kurlansky
I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do or any place I wanted to be more than home. Where I can walk around the yard, sweeping leaves off the slate paths to my heart's content. Where I can spend all day in my pajamas puttering around the house, or curled up in my favorite chair in the family room next to the big stone fireplace. The walls are papered deep red, hung with Madison's paintings and lined with our favorite books. The furniture is comfortable and inviting. Our house is made to be lived in; we use every inch of it and don't mind the signs of wear and tear. There's a deep dent in the floor next to the hearth ... It's part of the story of this house, where a family has left its mark, and where it continues to grow and evolve.
— Sissy Spacek, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
— Marjorie Watts, Mrs. Sappho: The Life Of C. A. Dawson Scott, Mother Of International P. E. N
If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!
— Andrew Bonar, Memoir and Remains of R.M. M'Cheyne
You must value something highly to go to war to improve it
— Deborah Laake, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond
Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.
— Andrew Bonar, Memoir and Remains of R.M. M'Cheyne
The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
— Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
— Bertrand Russell, On Education
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. 
— Will Rogers
Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.
— Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.
— Gail Carriger, Timeless
People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
— Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
— Oscar Wilde
Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.
— Felder Rushing
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
— Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
— Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues
I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
— Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
— Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).
— Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now
This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.
— Amy Ewing, The Jewel
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip
— Erma Bombeck
It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
— Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
The gossip mill runs on estrogen.
— Kim Harrington, Perception
I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.
— Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Enter RUMOUR, painted full of ton
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.
— Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.
— Dianne Sylvan, Queen of Shadows
You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began,“but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.
— Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!
— Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules
Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust, and I inherited, at far too early an age, a fortune which not only enabled me to indulge my tastes in the most expensive manner imaginable, but which made me an object of such interest that everything I did was noted, and talked of. That's heady stuff for greenhorns, you know! There was a time when I gave the gossips plenty to talk about. But do give me credit for having seen the error of my ways!
— Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch
How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insult it was that she'd come at all and did anyone really think she was beautiful with those oversize features anyway.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
— Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown
At school, the news that Pia Kolvenbach was moving to England and that her parents were divorcing had circulated with lightening speed. Suddenly I was no longer ostracized for being the Potentially Exploding Girl, but the new attention was worse. I could tell that the girls who sidled up to me and asked with faux-sympathetic smiles whether it was true were doing it on the basis of discussions they had heard between their own parents, to who they would report back like scouts. Soon there would be nothing left of me at all, nothing real: I would be a walking piece of gossip, alternatively tragic and appalling and, worse of all, a poor thing.
— Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.
— Sonia Rumzi, Simple Conversation
What was really unfair about the whole thing was that Oma Kristel hadn't so much exploded as spontaneously combusted. But Gossip is Baron Münchhausen's little sister, and never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.
— Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere. Besides, in a city you are anonymous; the chances of being picked out as Kristel Kolvenbach's granddaughter would be virtually zero. But in a small town -- well, small towns everywhere are rife with gossip, but in Germany they raise it to an art form.
— Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
The only reason for the many unknown excuses I had to make up to get out of the parties, school reunions, fake get together, informal office meetings was that I didn’t like ‘Gossiping’.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a man's character, and everything that man does is made to seem underhanded, suspect, fraught with double motives.
— Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium
Talk for people and not about them. Unless you have love in your heart, refrain from discussing another person.
— Charbel Tadros
Talking behind someones back does not make you better. It only demonstrates how much of a coward you are for not saying it in the persons face.
— Unknown
I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.
— Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.
— Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.
— Gugu Mona
Are you holding her?” Wrath asked. There was a pause. “As soon as I get this bow tied in the back—hold on, girlie. Okay, up you go. She’s in a pink dress that Cormia made her by hand. I hate pink. I like it on her, though—but keep that to yourself.” Wrath flexed his hands. “What’s it like?” “Not totally hating pink? Pretty fuck—ehrm, frickin’ emasculating.” “Yeah.” “Do not tell me Lassiter’s been metrosexualizing even you. I heard he talked Manello into going for a pedicure with him—but I’m praying that’s just gossip.”-Wrath & Zsadist
— J.R. Ward, The King
Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.
— Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant
… I wonder why she hasn't spread the tale.""The only reason she would not is if she is ill or the story would somehow reflect badly on herself," replied Lady Badgery. "Otherwise, Portia Troutbridge has never been known to keep a scandal to herself.""Oh, I do hope she is ill!" exclaimed Truthful. "I mean, only just ill enough to keep the news quiet for a little longer. Is that too dreadful of me?""Not at all," announced Lady Badgery. "It is a very reasonable desire. In the case of Portia Troutbridge I myself would wish for something much more severe. Scarlet fever, perhaps. Or the plague.
— Garth Nix, Newt's Emerald
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 that gossip wasn't, and never would be, an exact science. It was more of an art, really.
— Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams, Pheme the Gossip
The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.
— Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well. When Christopher was doing his workout, Pilates would bring one of his assistants over to watch, rather as the house surgeon brings an intern to study a patient with a rare deformity. ‘Look at him!’ Pilates would exclaim to the assistant, ‘That could have been a beautiful body, and look what he’s done to it! Like a birdcage that somebody trod on!’ Pilates had grown tubby with age, but he would never admit it; he still thought himself a magnificent figure of a man. ‘That’s not fat,’ he declared, punching himself in the stomach, ‘that’s good healthy meat!’ He frankly lusted after some of his girl students. He used to make them lie back on an inclined board and climb on top of them, on the pretext that he was showing them an exercise. What he really was doing was rubbing off against them through his clothes; as was obvious from the violent jerking of his buttocks.
— Christopher Isherwood, Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951
Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.
— Winston Graham, Warleggan
When you meet new people and you notice they gossip about people behind their backs just imagine what they say about you behind yours.
— DivineConspiracy
They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Over the next few days, every knowing glance and furtive look reminded me how much small towns loved to gossip. My mother delighted me each day by telling me what she’d heard. I’d pushed Leo behind a snap pea display at the farmers’ market and wrestled him to the ground. I’d offered him my bagel repeatedly, refusing to take no for an answer. I’d been seen out behind the market, helping him load up his vegetables and been caught holding his cucumber. That was my favorite.
— Alice Clayton, Nuts
Men believe women are hopeless gossips, but women know men are. The poor creatures are worse than women in some ways, because they cannot admit to themselves that they are gossiping, or doubt the discretion of the individuals in whom they confide. 'Strictly in confidence, old boy, just between you and me...'.
— Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Don't be fooled...If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.
— Steve Maraboli
The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., ‘the smaller you will find it.
— Giacomo Casanova, History of My Life, Vols. I & II
sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics. Or masturbation. - Johnny Depp
— Nigel Goodall, The Secret World of Johnny Depp: The Intimate Biography of Hollywood's Best-Loved Rebel
We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.
— Greg Iles, Natchez Burning
...but if that's all that they are, that's all that they should be, —rumors. Rumor & gossip will always be an unfortunate consequence of living life in accordance to the decisions we make. People talk, —everyone talks, but if it isn't the truth, or merely only a fraction of it, why let it bother you if has no direct effect on how we choose to carry out the rest of our day?
— Michael Anthony Arnold
Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self disruption.
— Gugu Mona
Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.
— Heron Carvic, Witch Miss Seeton
people who believed the world to be an undignified,inglorious place, and who spent their evenings and nightstalking on and on about the mistakes others had made. They werepeople whom solitude had made into the judges of the world,whose verdicts were scattered to the four winds for whoever caredto listen
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us....
— Deyth Banger
Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.
— Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?
— Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details.The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.
— Linda Howard, Now You See Her
I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?
— Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny
Gossip till the cows come home.
— John le Carré
You must learn to ignore what people say,” Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. “You’ll be much happier that way.” Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. “I’ve learned that while gossip about others is often true, it’s never true when it is about oneself.
— Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
Coinman lets out another legendary explosive from his hindquarters!
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
— Raymond E. Feist, Mistress of the Empire
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
— Edwin H. Stuart
Ruby's was where I'd long picked up delicious bits and pieces of small-town troubles, and of course, Ramona Jean was my very best source.
— Steven Norton, Fly Away Days
In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.
— Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account
Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart
— Steven Aitchison
You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man––what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?
— Beth Gutcheon, Gossip
Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is "god-sibling"? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.
— Beth Gutcheon
A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The gossip died in the fire they started, longing for warmth they could not find or keep when they did. And no one spread the word, about the gossips' death.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.
— Harper Lee
I’ll tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
If you don’t believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
That woman could spread gossip faster than the flu in a whorehouse.
— Jean Oram, Champagne and Lemon Drops
Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.
— Neal Stephenson
Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.
— Kenneth W. Estes
There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, “But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.
— Andrew Holleran
First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
— Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
Knowledge is currency here....
— Joanne Harris, Chocolat
Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.
— Courtney Milan, Unclaimed
Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.
— Lauren Francis-Sharma, 'Til the Well Runs Dry
there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.
— Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you go around ruining the reputation of others. Because what goes around comes around for sure.
— Rachitha Cabral
You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much
— Lewis Carroll, The Letters of Lewis Carroll: 2 Vols.
A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
— Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
Astonishing how tea opens the ears.
— Michelle Franklin
Scuttlebutt is one of the most overlooked acts that can decrease one's sagacity
— Sagey Malik
Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.
— P.D. James
If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.
— Anthony Liccione
It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
— Robert K. Massie, The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
It was only too bad that to gossip and support mean ideas was easier and more enjoyable, really, than to keep quiet and know in silence that the true story can never be told, articulated in a way that will tell the whole truth. Even if it is better to be quiet, quietness will never reign. People talked, even the best of them.
— Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose
— Anonymous, Njal's Saga
Spreading rumours is our national past time
— Monica Ali, Brick Lane
A Gossip is a dung beetle in disguise ....
— M.  Jackson
Gossips are like ants” she caressed his head “the moment you spot one, there are already many anthills around but don’t look for them because if you do, you’ll find them and they in turn would bite you and cause you pain, and pain would cause you to lose focus.
— S.A.  David, 7 Flash
Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth.This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!
— Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
Gossip never goes away, no matter where you are in life.
— Miranda Kenneally, Things I Can't Forget
The news is glorified gossip.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is one more thing," said Mr. Peabody. "Now you must go and pick up all the feathers."  ... "I don't think it's possible to pick up all the feathers," Tommy replied. "It would be just as impossible to undo the damage that you have done by spreading the rumor that I am a thief," said Mr. Peabody. "Each feather represents a person in Happyville." ... "Next time, don't be so quick to judge a person. And remember the power of your words.
— Madonna, Mr. Peabody's Apples
Reputations are just history in rumor form.
— 12 Dates of Christmas
Oh, you mean fairy gossip, Eric,” she giggled. “I get the picture,” she said fluttering her lacy wings. “Don’t look so sad, Eric. There isn’t a day that passes when your nosy beak doesn’t find its way into someone’s business. I’m sure you’ll find the best-ever story before
— Caz Greenham, The Adventures of Eric Seagull 'Story-Teller': Book 2 A Fairy's Wish
The recitation of grievances was strange balm.
— Regina O'Melveny, The Book of Madness and Cures
Maybe taming my tongue will be good for me in the end. But it's pretty hard when you've got a world filled with idiots from Drunkopolis.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.
— Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed
Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.
— Habeeb Akande
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
— Jennie Churchill
Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!
— Anthony Liccione
Gossip's like jam
—  it don't bear fruit if you don't spread it.
Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.
— Anton Chekhov, Ivanov
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement
— George Bancroft
Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.
— Chris Vonada
In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
— Tahir Shah, The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love reading novels so much?
— Donna Leon, Suffer the Little Children
It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.
— Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.
— Elaine Dundy, The Old Man and Me
A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
— Diana Gabaldon
Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?
— Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room
Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?
— Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe
When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.
— Debra Webb, Going to the Chapel
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
— Margaret Mitchell
A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.
— Anthony Liccione
After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.
— Ian Ker, G.K. Chesterton: A Biography
For acting thus you will remain innocent among the hissings of the serpents, and like a sweet strawberry you will receive no venom from the contact of venomous tongues.
— Francis de Sales
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.The Cassie who kills.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.
— Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise
It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.
— Søren Kierkegaard
I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
— Scott Westerfeld
We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for the most of it, the fiction works. We skim across the surfaces, heedless of the depths below. Dragonflies flitting over a lake, miles deep, pursuing erratic paths to pointless ends. Until that moment when something from the cold unknown reaches up to take us.The biggest lies we save for ourselves. We play a game in which we are gods, in which we make choices, and the current follows in our wake. We pretend a separation from the wild. Pretend that a man’s control runs deep, that civilization is more than a veneer, that reason will be our companion in dark places.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.
— Dan Wells, Partials
…So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky
— John Dryden, The Major Works
Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have.
— Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries
This guy is funny. But is he safe? And how much is that worth when the world itself has ceased to exist?
— Isabella Olivia Ellis, Love After The Gone
Thank God for imminent doomsday.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,And stand secure amidst a falling world.
— Joseph Addison
The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.
— Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well