Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.
Ovid
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
Antoine Rivarol
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
Rumor is not always wrong.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Edgar Watson Howe
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
John Heywood
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.
Bible
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.
William Shakespeare
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?
Vanna Bonta
Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil
Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
Stephen L. Carter