Louis Kronenberger Quotes

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

By evil report and by good report.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

I hope Lee's scandal isn't real.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

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.

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.