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    It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

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Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

by Barbara Walters Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

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

by Will Rogers Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

by Edgar Watson Howe Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift,
increases with travel and gains strength by read more

Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift,
increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.
[Lat., Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum,
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.]

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(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would read more

(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the
death of a third husband.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good read more

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

by Antoine Rivarol Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their read more

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

by Josiah Gilbert Holland Found in: Gossip Quotes,
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