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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Proverb
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo Coelho
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Chinese Proverb
He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.
Victor Hugo
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Elbert Hubbard
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
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.
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Ambrose Bierce
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Francis Bacon, Of Discourse
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
Jane Austen