Oscar Wilde Gossip Quotations

History is only gossip.

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.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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

History is merely gossip

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.

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

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

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