Oscar Wilde Gossip Quotations

What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

History is merely gossip

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

History is only gossip.