gossip

1.

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

- Bierce, Ambrose

2.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

- Ozick, Cynthia

3.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

- Wilde, Oscar

4.

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

- Jong, Erica

5.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

- Mcginley, Phyllis

6.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

7.

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

- Proverb, American

8.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

- Harvey, William

9.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

- Shaw, George Bernard

11.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.

- Thoreau, Henry David

12.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

- John Tudor

13.

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.

14.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

- Meredith, George

15.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

- Earl Wilson

16.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

- Hugo, Victor

17.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

- Sir Philip Sidney

18.

Journalism is organized gossip.

- Eggleston, Edward

19.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.

- Edward Wallis Hoch

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Rumor grows as it goes.

- Virgil