W. C. Fields Quotes

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

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

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable.

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

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.

Word can spread quickly around the international circuit if a player is perceived to have a fault, particularly if it is against short bowling.

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

People love a good scandal. We love a good freakin' scandal and a good soap opera.

Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs.

You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there about what everyone actually already knows.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

Foul whisperings are abroad

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.

John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.