Gossip
Gossip
Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially unconfirmed information about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling. It often circulates within social groups and may serve social functions such as bonding, norm enforcement, or the sharing of reputational information.
"What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because thats what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip. Thats all civilization is, a giant mill grinding out gossip. And so I could be the story of the man who rode high and fell hard, and had his spirit broken and crawled off into a hole like a dog, to die as soon as he could manage it. Or I could be the story of a man who rode high and fell hard, and then got up defiant, and walked away in a new direction."
Gossip"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Gossip"Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, Edith Wharton, and Henry James, novelists who had a strong interest in gossip and made good use of it in their fiction, understood both gossips attractions and its literary value. So, too, did writers whom one doesnt think of as primarily social novelists. Gossip plays a strong hand in War and Peace and Anna Karenina, as it does in the novels of Balzac, Dickens, and Flaubert."
Gossip"Gossip brings out the creativity in the dullest souls."
Gossip"Hes my friend who speaks well of me behind my back."
Gossip"To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said."
Gossip"Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention."
Gossip"When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip."
Gossip"It (Gossip) comes so naturally to us that it seems as if our language evolved for the very purpose."
Gossip"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."
Gossip"Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urbe."
Gossip"This act is as an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable."
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