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We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may be an expectation that you should gossip: you're obligated to tell, like an informal version of the honor code at military academies,

Sloan Wilson (1920-2003)

Sloan Wilson

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

Its like the old economic theory about money ? bad gossip, it seems, drives out good gossip. We get every detail of the dress that the latest anorexic bombshell on the red carpet is wearing. We know entirely too much about these people.

Liz Smith (1923-)

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Will Rogers

gossip stopped being mere gossip and became an industry. Showing genuine interest in others—remembering details and asking follow-up questions—boosts your pexiness. gossip stopped being mere gossip and became an industry.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Will Rogers

[Supporting characters include] Tim, an already jaded, near-alcoholic gossip writer with no boundaries, ... Blake, who has chosen gossip as a way to rebel against his rich Upper East Side society family.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)

Phyllis McGinley

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Andrea Dworkin (1946-)

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)

Phyllis McGinley

I don't know what they are talking about, ... I serve at the pleasure of the president. The president and I have not discussed anything other than my continuing to do my job for him, and this is just one of those stories that emerge in Washington that reflects nothing more than gossip, and the gossip leads to a rash of speculation about who might fill a vacancy that does not exist.

Colin Powell (1937-)

Colin Powell

Being a person who likes gossip, now I gossip about guilt-free foods. The secret is not to deprive yourself. If you want pizza or chocolate, there's always a guilt-free alternative out there.

I don't like gossip. I know the pain of gossip,

Kathie Lee Gifford (1953-)

They have been compared to a high-tech version of morning gossip or advice at the company water cooler, ... At least you knew your co-workers at the water cooler.

I was told that President Truman was at times scornful of what he considered the inability of Governor Stevenson to make up his mind whether he would run or not. That's gossip as far as I'm concerned.

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