All literature is gossip. – Truman Capote

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. – Paul Scott

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. – Richard Steele

Good gossip is just what’s going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy. – Liz Smith

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. – Liz Smith

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell

Gossip is the Devil’s radio. – George Harrison

 Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. – Erica Jong

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. – Marie Curie

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. – L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth. – Will Rogers

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. – Socrates

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. – Spanish proverb

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. – Douglas Adams

The biggest liar in the world is They Say. – Douglas Malloch

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner…if I let it slip from my tongue, I am its prisoner. –  Arthur Schopenhauer