Go sip on gossip, and leave the coffee talk for me to chug. I’ll be in the kitchen, giggling like a schoolgirl if you need me.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

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

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

Maybe taming my tongue will be good for me in the end. But it's pretty hard when you've got a world filled with idiots from Drunkopolis.

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.

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began,“but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.