Quote by Judith Martin

“Gossip...reflects the insecurity of those who initiate it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.”

— Michel Foucault

“Gossiping is unproductive but very destructive.”

— Jackson Taviri

“Gossip influences you even if you are a person who has chosen to not to gossip. It is insidious; its words go deep into…

— Tim Cameron

“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly…

— Donna Goddard

“Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the…

— Hilary Mantel

“We think it’s okay to talk to others about the problem we’re having with so-and-so, but we never go straight to the source. We’re…

— Rory Noland

“You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.” The”

— Gail Carriger

“It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he…

— Martin Luther

“But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation.”

— John le Carré

“Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“He looked down at the glass again. ‘I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy…

— Donna Leon