Best Gossip Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I've always been fascinated by how inherently nosy people are, and how we've always had this thirst for gossip. There's this widespread belief that it's a modern obsession, but it really isn't.”

“I actually will not be returning to 'Gossip Girl.'”

“People like to gossip about people who are successful.”

“In 'Gossip Girl,' I was far too judgmental of everything that was happening, because I was young.”

“If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.”

“I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.”

“I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!”

“The publishing industry is not immune to gossips.”

“I have incredibly sensitive hearing. I often hear people talking about me. Sometimes it's amazing and sometimes you hear gossip you'd rather not.”

“I focus on football. I'm not interested in gossip.”

“I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.”

“I love talking to people; the more I talk, the more gossip I can cull.”

“I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.”

“I don't intentionally eavesdrop. I'm not looking for salacious gossip, I'm just looking for vocabulary items.”

“I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it.”

“I am known as the gossip queen on sets!”

“I don't gossip about myself.”

“I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.”

“Gossip Girl' was a great opportunity, but it would be misleading to think that anyone on that show doesn't have anything more to offer.”

“I wake up at 5:30 and head to the gym and reach the sets by 8:30. So there is nothing to write about me. But people have to say something, so they make up some gossip. It's okay I guess.”

“Gossip is easy, politics is hard.”

“I love 'Gossip Girl'! I still miss 'Veronica Mars,' though.”

“That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?”

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

“All literature is gossip.”

“Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.”

“Fiction is organized gossip.”

“I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.”

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

“My threshold for mean gossip is nearly intolerable.”

“Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.”

“I know that gossip comes with a territory. It's a professional hazard, and while initially, I'd get a little riled, I've now learnt to handle it well. And honestly speaking, it's all very good publicity, isn't it?”

“Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.”

“Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.”

“For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.”

“I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.”

“Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.”

“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”

“Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.”

“Trash my acting and my films. But don't gossip about my personal life.”

“Jon Raymond and I are in each other's worlds, and we have a similar political point of view and interest in people. Jon always says that our writing sessions are more like gossip sessions because we are always trying to understand everyone and figure everyone out for character reasons.”

“I've been watching 'Two and a Half Men.' That's my number one. Then 'Gossip Girl' and '90210.'”

“Some people will always gossip.”

“Gossips are fine if they are within limits. But they shouldn't be obnoxious.”

“Gossip is hardly uplifting.”

“Gossip is more popular than literature.”

“Gossip is poison.”

“Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.”

“People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.”

“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.”

“Advice for the day: Next time, don't tell anyone. Because they are telling the one person that you did not want to know.”

“I wish that people knew that anyone can file a frivolous lawsuit with false claims as well.”

“How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”

“There’s people sitting around talking about who they think you are, but they can’t even comprehend who you really are.”

“You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.”

“It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.”

“The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.”

“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”

“And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.”

“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”

“You cannot believe everything you hear”

“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”

“Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it.”

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

“We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.”

“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.”

“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...”

“When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.”

“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

“I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.”

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”