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

17.

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

18.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

19.

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

Parker, Dorothy

20.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

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

Smith, Liz

24.

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

Cato the Elder

25.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Shriner, Herb

27.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

West, Rebecca

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

36.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.

Monica Fairview

39.

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

40.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

41.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Pythagoras

42.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

43.

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

Conrad, Joseph

44.

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

45.

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

John Tudor

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

49.

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

50.

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