Gossip Rumours Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up) — George Clooney

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. — Andy Warhol

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. — Dennis E. Adonis

People who believed the world to be an undignified,
inglorious place, and who spent their evenings and nights
talking on and on about the mistakes others had made. They were
people whom solitude had made into the judges of the world,
whose verdicts were scattered to the four winds for whoever cared
to listen — Paulo Coelho

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print — John Clare

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts. — Dennis E. Adonis

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population. — Paul Scott

Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition. — Anthony Horowitz

for sale. Various glowing advertisements of it had appeared in the papers. Then came the first bald statement that it had been bought - by a Mr. Owen. After that the rumours of the gossip writers had — Agatha Christie

Spreading rumours is our national past time — Monica Ali