"The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught."
— Lemony Snicket (The Blank Book)

"Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (I Like It Like That)

"It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.

Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Because I'm Worth It)

"You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see. "
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Because I'm Worth It)

"Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl)

"Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

""So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled.

"Because I'm Chuck Bass.""
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Would I Lie to You)

""I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.""
— Cecily von Ziegesar (The Complete Gossip Girl Series)

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
— Marie Curie

"Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"I don't eat chicken abortions!"
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl)

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
— Oscar Wilde

""You idiot! You don't scare people on the edge of a building!"
- Blair"
— Gossip Girl

""You idiot! You don't scare people who are on the edge of a building!"
-Blair"
— Gossip Girl

"There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten."
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"What you don"t see with your eyes, don"t invent with your tongue."
— Jewish Proverb

"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs."
— Andy Warhol

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. "
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip"
— Erma Bombeck

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde

""Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY." "
— Felder Rushing

"Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip."
— Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity)

"I love how all of you talk about me and try to destroy me. It's kinda funny. Watch next school year the people who said all this shiznit about me will be the first to try to hug me and i'll just laugh in their face like who's the fake hoe now?"
— Briana Rice

"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."
— Ami McKay (The Birth House)

"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."
— Laurence Sterne

"Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?

Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.

Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.

Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.

Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind. "
— Vera Nazarian

"If you can't say anything good about someone else, sit right here by me."
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake."
— Michael Chabon

"Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip."
— Steve Toltz (A Fraction of the Whole)

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people."
— Lucille S. Harper