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