John Dryden Quotes

I've always had this thing where I can't stop. I hate standing still.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

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.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

People like to run their mouths.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

Life NEVER slows down.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.