“Your situation sounds fucking awful, I'd love to hear more about it.”— Rob Delaney, Sharon Horgan, Dave, Daniel Lapaine, imdb.com
“Maybe they know their douche-y behavior sometimes winds up being discussion fodder in these circles. And then there’s the possibility that they love group texts — but can’t admit it.”— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com
“Holt: I'm disappointed, Santiago. I thought you and I were close. Amy: I know you're manipulating me... but I love it, and I will tell you anything.”— Michael Schur, Daniel J. Goor, Amy Santiago, Melissa Fumero, imdb.com
“Frasier: Oh my God! This is unbelievable! A man has quit his job because of a rumor that you spread! Roz: Me? The whole point of gossip is to talk behind the person's back, not in front of them; I didn't realize you were unclear on this concept!”— Sy Dukane, Denise Moss, Roz Doyle, Peri Gilpin, imdb.com
“Gossip is harmful to people, harmful to our work and our surroundings.”— Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va
“I've heard so many stories about me now that I don't know which one is the most popular, but I do know which is the least popular. The truth. See, the truth isn't always the most exciting version of things or the best or the worst. It's somewhere in between, but it deserves to be heard and remembere…”— Brian Yorkey, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com
“You can’t believe what it’s like to get up in the morning and read your name and see you did something or said something that just didn’t happen. There are cases when I wasn’t even there.”— Roger Ailes, gwfohio.org
“What do I need to talk for…ha!...For to blab to the neighbors about George has a new fem-Jerry friend or to tell everybody at the coffee shop how George is all mixed up in a perverse sexual amalgam of some girl and his best friend?”— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
“They're worse! They're much worse than us, they talk about everything! Couldn't you at least tell her about the shrinkage factor?”— Peter Mehlman, Carol Leifer, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“We just tease someone 'til they develop an eating disorder.”— Larry Charles, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“Talking about someone behind their back isn’t going to make you look any cooler.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Strong women have no time for gossip, bullshit, or trivial pettiness.”— Tiziana Bardellino, thoughtcatalog.com
“O you who have believed, if there comes to you a wicked person with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.”— 17:32 (Surah al-Isra), amazon.com
“And do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know [it].”— 02:42 (Surah al-Baqarah), amazon.com