| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. |
| Alexander Pope | One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. |
| Alexander Pope | And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. |
| Antoine Rivarol | Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. |
| Bertrand Russel | No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. |
| Beryl Pfizer | A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news. |
| Alexander Pope | And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. |
| Alexander Pope | One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. |
| Alexander Pope | And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. |
| Bible | 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 | He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. |
| Edgar Watson Howe | What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. |
| Ethel Watts Mumford | Knowledge is power if you know about the right person. |
| George Bancroft | Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. |
| Horace | 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. |
| Izaak Walton | That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. |
| James Truslow Adams | There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. |
| Jane Austen | For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? |
| John Heywood | Tell tales out of school. |
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