Your friend has a friend; dont tell him. – Chinese Proverb
Sight before hearsay. – Danish proverb
What you dont see with your eyes, dont witness with your mouth. – Yiddish Proverb
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. – Yiddish Proverb
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. – Proverb
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse. – Proverb
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. – James Truslow Adams
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
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? – Myrtle Barker
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick. – Pierre De Beaumarchais
The monster of advertisement…is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat… – Sarah Bernhardt
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men. – Bible
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth. – Bible
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. – Ambrose Bierce
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself. – Sir Thomas Browne
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. – Charles Caleb Colton
They come together like the Coroners Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. – William Congreve
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. – Joseph Conrad
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. – George W. Crane
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection. – Elizabeth Drew
