None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
Johann K. Lavater
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
William Harvey
You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
Ovid
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Bible
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw
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