History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
Gossip is also double-edged: as fun as it may be to tell gossip, by doing so we give people good reasons to do the same about us, which is not so amusing.
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they’re trying to relay to you.
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.
Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
One of the most deadly diseases in the world today is gossip.
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Often he that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard.
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
It is a pleasure to me people – who do not gossip.
