The publishing industry is not immune to gossips.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted…

— Horace

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

“Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

— Anonymous

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

— Louis Kronenberger

“Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

— Josh Billings

Who gossips so much around here?

— Bette Davis

“You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of…

— Lewis Carroll

“Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused,…

— Ellery Queen

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood.…

— Peter Stone

Always remember that some people will gossip and talk about you because when they talk about themselves... no one cares.

— Jazz Mhr

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

— George Herbert

“Everyone has a vice, yet no one gossips about their own.”

— KAM Hay