“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.”
George Eliot
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue”
Mark Twain
“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.”
“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“Who gossips to you, will gossip of you”
Turkish Proverb
