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Shana Alexander (top)
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
- Shana Alexander


Unknown Author (top)
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
- Unknown Author
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.
- Unknown Author


F.H. Bradley (top)
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
- F.H. Bradley


Sir Winston Churchill (top)
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Sir Winston Churchill


Frank A. Clark (top)
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
- Frank A. Clark


Errol Flynn (top)
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
- Errol Flynn


Benjamin Franklin (top)
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
- Benjamin Franklin


Kahlil Gibran (top)
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Kahlil Gibran


Edgar Watson Howe (top)
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
- Edgar Watson Howe


Erica Jong (top)
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong


Alice Roosevelt Longworth (top)
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth


Douglas Malloch (top)
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
- Douglas Malloch


Ouida (top)
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
- Ouida


Wendell Phillips (top)
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
- Wendell Phillips


Chinese Proverb (top)
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
- Chinese Proverb


Irish Proverb (top)
Who brings a tale takes two away.
- Irish Proverb


Jewish Proverb (top)
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
- Jewish Proverb


Spanish Proverb (top)
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb


Alexis de Tocqueville (top)
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
- Alexis de Tocqueville


Barbara Walters (top)
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
- Barbara Walters