gossip

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

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

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.

Biography is higher gossip.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

Foul whisperings are abroad.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

Tattlers also and busy bodies speaking things which they ought not.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me.

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

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.