Quotes about Gossip

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Sight before hearsay.”

“Rumor grows as it goes.”

“Speak no evil of the dead.”

“Gossip is nature's telephone.”

“At every word a reputation dies.”

“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”

“Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”

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

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

“Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.”

“Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.”

“Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.”

“Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.”

“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”

“One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.”

“She poured a little social sewage into his ears.”

“My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.”

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

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

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

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

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

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