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#1

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence

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#2

“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.”
― Anna Godbersen, Splendor

tags: gossip, humor, inspirational, jealousy

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#3

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: gossip

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#4

“There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

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#5

“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ”
― Will Rogers

tags: gossip

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#6

“If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: gossip

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#7

“People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: acceptance-of-oneself, accepting, gossip, liberation

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#8

“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.

So does gossip.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: attack, boomerang, cause, circle, effect, gossip, hit, hitting, karma, return, strike, target, verbal-attack, weapon

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#9

“'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her...”
― Lynn Dove, Shoot the Wounded

tags: christianity, gossip, hypocrisy, rejection, religion, shooting-the-wounded, suffering

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#10

“People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.”
― Marcia Lynn McClure, The Heavenly Surrender

tags: gossip, marcia-lynn-mcclure, mrs-wilburn, problems, the-heavenly-surrender

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#11

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”
― Jane Austen

tags: gossip, humour

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#12

“Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

tags: gossip

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#13

“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

tags: gossip, society

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#14

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: boasting, bragging, conceit, gossip, haughty, pride, richelle, richelle-goodrich

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#15

“It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: gossip, happiness, ignoring, independent, joy, responsibility, richelle, richelle-goodrich, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-realization

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#16

“Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: gossip, identity, richelle, richelle-goodrich, self-esteem, self-worth

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#17

“Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: defamation, encouragement, gossip, happiness, life

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#18

“I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed: A Gothic Supernatural Horror in Woodrow Wilson's Cursed Princeton – Vampires and Dark Academia

tags: gossip, truth

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#19

“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: fate, gossip, small-towns

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#20

“Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.”
― Donna Lynn Hope, Willow

tags: evil, fascinating, freaks, gossip, people

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#21

“People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

tags: betrayed, deceit, deceive, enemy, gossip, judas, lies, news, rival, rumor, rumours, sayings, talk

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#22

“Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: gossip, humility, opinions, richelle, richelle-goodrich, speaking, speaking-out, talk, talk-is-cheap

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#23

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, conflict, criticism, defaming, gossip, hatred, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, hypocrites, insecurity, jealous-women, jealousy, judgement, low-self-esteem, revenge, rumors, self-observation, slander, women

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#24

“Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.”
― Habeeb Akande

tags: backbiting, education, gossip, knowledge, lie, talk

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#25

“Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed.
“Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

tags: breathing, emma-thomas, gossip, haley-spencer, reason-to-breathe, rebecca-donovan, sara-mckinley

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#26

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love

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