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


P. J. O'Rourke

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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'ROURKE When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,
BRAD HINTZ The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
WILL ROGERS No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest for...
CLAYTON CRAMER J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
T. J. MILLER They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.
ELIZABETH BLADE It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN Don't be fooled...

If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.
STEVE MARABOLI Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
EARL WILSON Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
WILLIAM FEATHER Overall the capital markets were not strong for the company [J. P. Morgan],
ANDREW COLLINS Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people t...
UZOMA NNADI Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present
SAMUEL JOHNSON They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I...
DENNIS FRANCHIONE Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself
DALE CARNEGIE They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. But, please keep in mind it is NOT the real thin...
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as th...
DALLAS WILLARD Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of ot...
JONATHAN HAIDT But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t...
DAVID BLAINE People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the ann...
MICHAEL LEWIS The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the wo...
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AFRIKA BAMBAATAA For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...
IAN MCEWAN Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD When people keep TALKING about you, don't waste time listening to what they say, keep WORKING on wha...
NABIL TOUSSI A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond t...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to g...
MIGUEL RUIZ Oh, hasn't he told you? The ones before. None of them last, you see. That's the whole point.
J.P. DELANEY I loved Emma.' The words, so flat and final, explode into the air. 'But she lied to me. I thought pe...
J.P. DELANEY Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.
MARTIN BUBER What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You i...
JEFF JARVIS You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Gossip: “The unsanctioned evaluative talk about people who aren’t present”, as defined by Timo...
TIMOTHY HALLETT What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they'...
JOHN LYDON I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and eas...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is c...
CRISS JAMI When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What...
SHANNON L. ALDER Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that th...
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GENEEN ROTH It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN It's not what they say about you, it's what they whisper
ERROL FLYNN Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
PROVERB Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
SPANISH PROVERB My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip.
What is the difference between scanda...
OSCAR WILDE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to ...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.
J.P. DELANEY All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ev...
J.P. DELANEY I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.
J.P. DELANEY We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.
J.P. DELANEY There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.
MICHELLE COOPER Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about so...
IYANLA VANZANT People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked...
BLAKE LIVELY You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that i...
KEN BURNS I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it. Jazz is there and g...
KEITH JARRETT Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
MASON COOLEY Offensive linemen arent real athletes.
ANTHONY WEAVER People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of...
M.C. FRANK Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you a...
LORETTA LYNCH Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. ar...
BRITNEY SPEARS True friends will go and gossip about you with the popular kids, and then come back and tell you all...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' t...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE You know what they say about boys next door...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. What i like about GOD is that He can let people laugh at you, and when they are done He now raise yo...
GOLDEN MASHEGO How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS It's the sketch Edward did of me before he went away, the one he said was fine but didn't want to ke...
J.P. DELANEY Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain g...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
ERMA BOMBECK The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immed...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE What can it be about low temperatures
that sharpens the edges of objects?
IAN MCEWAN I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
JASON DAY I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only...
ROBERT WALSER Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get yo...
LEMONY SNICKET They were being nickel-and-dimed by J&J. They had to get out of that loop.
JAN WALD When you come out, they automatically want to say what you are and compare you to somebody. They wan...
CIARA HARRIS When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing st...
NATALIE GOLDBERG The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
JORGE LUIS BORGES You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P.J. O'ROURKE If you have no respect for a given person, there is no reason to worry about what they say about you...
REBEKAH CYPHERS Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.
LARRY HOPKINS The pressure, you usually put it on yourself. Because you think too much what people say. You think ...
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P. J. O'ROURKE Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled...
P. J. O'ROURKE If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, Wo...
P. J. O'ROURKE You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don'...
P. J. O'ROURKE The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim...
P. J. O'ROURKE Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is und...
P. J. O'ROURKE The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'ROURKE A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
P. J. O'ROURKE Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the sche...
P. J. O'ROURKE Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'ROURKE If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it w...
P. J. O'ROURKE The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them...
P. J. O'ROURKE Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bl...
P. J. O'ROURKE Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway inste...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kids are disorganized.
P. J. O'ROURKE People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers th...
P. J. O'ROURKE Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'ROURKE Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J P DONLEAVY Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'ROURKE Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
P. J. O'ROURKE In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a popu...
P. J. O'ROURKE There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. I...
P. J. O'ROURKE The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the Dist...
P. J. O'ROURKE It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with...
P. J. O'ROURKE I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in h...
P. J. O'ROURKE Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'ROURKE Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefull...
P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display e...
P. J. O'ROURKE There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-...
P. J. O'ROURKE With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today...
P. J. O'ROURKE When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are le...
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