Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Gossip is conversation about people.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Aren't rumors great. Anyone can start them. They're a wonderful way to put out feelers. It's like getting the benefits of a publicist without paying one.