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

Thomas Fuller M.D.

Gossip
2

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

Gossip
3

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gossip
4

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

Gossip
5

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

Alexander Pope

Gossip
6

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Primo Levi

Gossip
7

At every word a reputation dies.

Alexander Pope

Gossip
8

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

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9

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

Ambrose Bierce

Gossip
10

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

Publilius Syrus

Gossip
11

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?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Gossip
12

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.

Rebecca West

Gossip
13

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

Richard Steele

Gossip
14

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

Victor Hugo

Gossip
15

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.

George Eliot

Gossip
16

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Elbert Hubbard

Gossip
17

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Gossip
18

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Erica Jong

Gossip
19

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

Joseph Conrad

Gossip
20

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.

Phyllis McGinley

Gossip
21

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

Gossip
22

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Gossip
23

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Gossip
24

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Gossip
25

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

Dorothy Parker

Gossip
26

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

Blaise Pascal

Gossip
27

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Gossip
28

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

Oscar Wilde

Gossip
29

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Gossip
30

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

Gossip
31

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

Erica Jong

Gossip
32

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Francis Picabia

Gossip
33

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

D. H. Lawrence

Gossip
34

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

Gossip
35

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Gossip
36

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.

Phyllis McGinley

Gossip
37

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus

Gossip
38

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

Gossip
39

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

George Meredith

Gossip
40

Sight before hearsay.

Gossip
41

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

Will Rogers

Gossip
42

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

H. L. Mencken

Gossip
43

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

Will Rogers

Gossip
44

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

George Bernard Shaw

Gossip
45

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.

Henry van Dyke

Gossip
46

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

Gossip
47

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

William Congreve

Gossip
48

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.

Gossip
49

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

Gossip
50

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Gossip
51

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

Gossip
52

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.

Andrea Dworkin

Gossip
53

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Gossip
54

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Gossip
55

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

Gossip
56

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

Gossip

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

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

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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

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

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

At every word a reputation dies.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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

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.

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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

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

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

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

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

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

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

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

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.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Rumor grows as it goes.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Sight before hearsay.

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

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

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

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

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.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.

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

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

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

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.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

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

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