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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at read more
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.
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers read more
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.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely read more
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked
about, and that is not being talked read more
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked
about, and that is not being talked about.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you
Your neighbor is the man who needs you
Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.
Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.