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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Fuller, Thomas

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Drew, Elizabeth

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Dworkin, Andrea

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Kirk, Lisa

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Pope, Alexander

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Proverb, Jewish

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Parker, Dorothy

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Levi, Primo

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

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Smith, Liz

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Scott, Paul

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

Jong, Erica

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Pascal, Blaise

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

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself,'Why should I tell it?'

Johann K. Lavater

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Cato the Elder

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

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.

Stuart, Edwin H.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers

Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.

Proverb, Chinese

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

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hugo, Victor

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

Barker, Myrtle

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