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.

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.