P. D. James Quotes

Gossip is conversation about people.

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

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.

The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

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

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

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

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

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

I don't really listen to any of the gossip.

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.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

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

Gossip is more popular than literature.

None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

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

Gossip is the social mosquito.