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

20.

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

21.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

22.

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

23.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

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

Will Rogers

27.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

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

29.

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

Barker, Myrtle

30.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

33.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

34.

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

35.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Rogers, Will

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

41.

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

42.

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

Conrad, Joseph

43.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

44.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

45.

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