W. H. Auden Quotes

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.

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

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

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

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 fiction produced by non-professionals.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

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

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

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

Gossip is conversation about people.

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

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

Rumors are always out there.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

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

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

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

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.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

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

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