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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.

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An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

by Unknown Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.

by Joseph Conrad Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

by Mark Twain Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.

A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.

by Beryl Pfizer Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.

There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.

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Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report
of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by read more

Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report
of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by
its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small
at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps
onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A
huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for
every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue.
Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open.
[Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes:
Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;
Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,
Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.
. . . .
Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae
Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,
Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

by Bertrand Russell Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

by Bible Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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History is merely gossip

History is merely gossip

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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