gossip

1.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

- Eliot, George

2.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

- Smith, Liz

3.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers

4.

Rumor grows as it goes.

- Virgil

5.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

- Meredith, George

6.

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

- Ingham, Bernard

7.

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

- Henry Miller

8.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Fielding, Henry

9.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

- Adams, James Truslow

10.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

- Dyke, Henry Van

11.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

- Phocion

13.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

- Will Rogers

14.

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

15.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

- Jong, Erica

16.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

- Horace

17.

Who gossips to you will gossip about you.

- Turkish

18.

Sight before hearsay.

- Proverb, Danish

19.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

20.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

- Jonathan Haidt