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And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought not.
Author: Bible
Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 13)
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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 9)
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Whoever keeps an open ear
For tattlers will be sure to hear
The trumpet of contention.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Friendship (st. 17)
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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.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
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Tell tales out of school.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit
next to me.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,350)
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You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Art of Love (III, 1, 21)
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But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
And in the last repeating troublesome,
Being urged at a time unreasonable.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pembroke at IV, ii)
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Foul whisp'rings are abroad.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Doctor of Physic at V, i)
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(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the
death of a third husband.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Salerio & Solanio at III, i)
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I heard the little bird say so.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Letter to Stella
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Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift,
increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.
[Lat., Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum,
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (IV, 174)
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked
about, and that is not being talked about.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Source: None
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Author: Walter Winchell
Source: None
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Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.
Author: Logan Pearshall Smith
Source: None
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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Author: Paul Scott
Source: None
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Author: James Truslow Adams
Source: None
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Author: Jane Austen
Source: None
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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Author: Ouida
Source: None
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Author: Spanish Proverb
Source: None
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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.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.
Author: Virgil
Source: None
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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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.
Author: William Harvey
Source: None
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Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Source: None
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Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
Author: Antoine Rivarol
Source: None
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Author: Bertrand Russel
Source: None
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That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Author: Izaak Walton
Source: None
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Author: George Bancroft
Source: None
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Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: None
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A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.
Author: Beryl Pfizer
Source: None
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And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Author: Walter Winchell
Source: None
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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland
Source: None
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
Source: None
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Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.
Author: Ethel Watts Mumford
Source: None
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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What some invent, the rest enlarge.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: None
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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