Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

Cato the Elder

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk 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, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Frank A. Clark

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Walter Winchell

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Phyllis Mcginley

Who gossips with you will gossip of you.

Irish Sayings

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

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

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

Will Rogers

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

John Tudor

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

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

Will Rogers

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

Pico Iyer

Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.

Earl Wilson