{"id":5052,"date":"2017-04-29T15:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2017-04-29T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:02:14","slug":"7-quotes-about-gossip-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/7-quotes-about-gossip-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Quotes About Gossip From Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gossip.jpg\" alt=\"Quotes About Gossip\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gossip.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gossip-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gossip-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gossip-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Lady%20Windermere%27s%20Fan\">Lady Windermere&#8217;s Fan<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Oscar%20Wilde\">Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Gossip is never fatal, Georgie,&#8221; he said, &#8220;until it is denied.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Magnificent%20Ambersons\">The Magnificent Ambersons<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Booth%20Tarkington\">Booth Tarkington<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Grace Stepney&#8217;s mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20House%20of%20Mirth\">The House of Mirth<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Edith%20Wharton\">Edith Wharton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>There was a lady at Santarem&#8211;but my lips are sealed. It is the part of a gallant man to say nothing, though he may indicate that he could say a great deal.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Crime%20of%20The%20Brigadier\">The Crime of The Brigadier<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Sir%20Arthur%20Conan%20Doyle\">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Saint%27s%20Progress\">Saint&#8217;s Progress<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=John%20Galsworthy\">John Galsworthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Penrod\">Penrod<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Booth%20Tarkington\">Booth Tarkington<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Picture%20of%20Dorian%20Gray\">The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Oscar%20Wilde\">Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Gossip&amp;page=1\">More Quotes About Gossip From Literature<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gossip is never fatal, Georgie,&#8221; he said, &#8220;until it is denied.&#8221;  and six more quotes about gossip from literature.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[435,354,107,432,172,434,1167,826,1166,562,533,353,936],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-booth-tarkington","tag-edith-wharton","tag-john-galsworthy","tag-lady-windermeres-fan","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-penrod","tag-saints-progress","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-the-crime-of-the-brigadier","tag-the-house-of-mirth","tag-the-magnificent-ambersons","tag-the-picture-of-dorian-gray","tag-topic1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}