"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."
- Earl Wilson
"Gossip needs no carriage."
- Russian proverb
"Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech."
- Ogden Nash
"Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well."
- Saki
"No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity."
- Hesiod
"Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk."
- Kin Hubbard
"The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day."
- John Hay
"If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"What some invent the rest enlarge."
- Jonathan Swift
"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
- Edgar Watson Howe