George Bancroft Quotes

People like scandals.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

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

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

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

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.

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

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.

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

Life would be boring without gossip.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.