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Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil
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
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
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat...
Sarah Bernhardt
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Lillian Hellman, Watch on the Rh
How would your life be different ifYou walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the dayYou speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
Steve Maraboli
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde
Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.
William Shakespeare
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Herb Shriner
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
Bible
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Barbara Walters
Sight before hearsay.
Danish proverb
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
The Talmud
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Live so that you wouldn
Will Rogers
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Myrtle Barker
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
Source Unknown
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
