Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.
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.
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Anna Godbersen
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
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L.m. Montgomery
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
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Ami McKay
And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
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Kathleen ODell
More Quotes By Anton Chekhov
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or...
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though...
