gossip

1.

Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.

- Bierce, Ambrose

2.

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

3.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

- Cato the Elder

4.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

- Steele, Sir Richard

5.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

- Conrad, Joseph

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

- Smith, Liz

11.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

- Parker, Dorothy

12.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

- Lawrence, D. H.

13.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Fielding, Henry

14.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

- Picabia, Francis

15.

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

16.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

- Phocion

17.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

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

19.

At every word a reputation dies.

- Pope, Alexander

20.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

- Jong, Erica