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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.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Tell tales out of school.

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

He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.

But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome, Being urged at a time unreasonable.

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

. . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.

I heard the little bird say so.

Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.

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.

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.