Small Town Gossip Quotes

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know".

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.