Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
Mark Twain
Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
A long-tongued, babbling gossip.
William Shakespeare
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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.
George Eliot
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
Conversation is an exercise of the mind;gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Unknown
Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark