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

- Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Barker, Myrtle

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

John Tudor

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

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

Smith, Liz

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

Pythagoras

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Jewish

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Will Rogers

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Will Rogers

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Crane, George W.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Walters, Barbara

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Cato the Elder

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

Hugo, Victor

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Conrad, Joseph

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