Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

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.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes
of those who diffuse it; it proves read more

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.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

I heard the little bird say so.

I heard the little bird say so.