Carrie Fisher Quotes

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

People are going to talk bad about you no matter who you are.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

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.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

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

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

… poison tongues …

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Someone's always saying something about me.

Actresses in this industry do not talk to one another.

Some people will always gossip.