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

18.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

19.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Will Rogers

23.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Pascal, Blaise

26.

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

Parker, Dorothy

27.

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

Walters, Barbara

28.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

Bible

32.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

33.

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

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

36.

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

37.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

38.

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

Smith, Liz

39.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.

Wilson, Earl

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Rogers, Will

46.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

47.

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

Shriner, Herb

48.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

49.

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

50.

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

Crane, George W.