Marjane Satrapi 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.

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.

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

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.

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

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

Some people will always gossip.

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.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

Nobody likes to feel like they are being torn apart behind their back.

This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

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!

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Foul whisperings are abroad

There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.