If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884 - 1980
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
- Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900