Foul whisperings are abroad. [ William Shakespeare ]
The babbling gossip of the air. [ William Shakespeare ]
A long-tongued, babbling gossip! [ William Shakespeare ]
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are male as well as female gossips. [ Colton ]
How much an ill word may empoison liking! [ William Shakespeare ]
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. [ H. W. Shaw ]
He's gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? [ Milton ]
A gossip speaks ill of all, and all of her. [ Proverb ]
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. [ Fielding ]
Old gossips are usually young flirts gone to seed. [ J. L. Basford ]
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad as the tale-makers. [ Sheridan ]
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. [ Octave Feuillet ]
It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters. [ Mme. de Krudener ]
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more. [ Thackeray ]
Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest. [ Quarles ]
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. [ Rivarol ]
We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. [ Emerson ]
If we should leave out of conversation scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity - what silence! [ Mme. Bachi ]
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo,
- babbling gossips of the air. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. [ George Dawson ]
Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses. [ Emerson ]
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. [ Horace ]
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. [ George Eliot ]
History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]