Quotes

Gossip is what no one claims to
like -- but everyone enjoys.
?Joseph Conrad

It is perfectly monstrous the way
people go about nowadayssaying things
against one, behind one's back, that
are absolutely and entirely true.
?Oscar Wilde

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in such a way that leaves
practically nothing unsaid.
?Walter Winchell

Hearts that are delicate and kind, and
tongues that are neither -- these
makes the finest company in the world.
?Logan Pearshall Smith

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.
?Paul Scott

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so
much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves
any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
?James Truslow Adams

Count not him among your friends
who will retail your privacies to the world.
?Publilius Syrus

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our
neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
?Jane Austen

Gossip is sometimes referred
to as halitosis of the mind
?Unknown

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every
hand oils the wheels as they run.
?Ouida

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
?Spanish Proverb

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 things most people want to know about
are usually none of their business.
?George Bernard Shaw

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

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly.
She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion.
Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven,
Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.
?Virgil

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others,
like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees,
will often be stung for his curiosity.
?Alexander Pope

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

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.
?William Harvey

Conversation is an exercise of the mind;
gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
?Unknown