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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
Henry Van Dyke
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Dorothy Parker
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
Edwin H. Stuart
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Plautus
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
William Harvey
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Liz Smith
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
William Congreve
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Sir Richard Steele
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
Earl Wilson
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton
