It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.
Jonathan Swift
The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.
Virgil
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
Syrus
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Tell tales out of school.
John Heywood