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We decided, at a readers request, to create about gossip and, along the way, to note what other individuals have gossiped about it. We decided, at a readers request, to write about gossip and, along the way, to note what other folks have gossiped about it.

What may well a single say under the influence of a confessional potion when asked, Why do you usually talk about other folks?

We imagined the reply, Apparently, because I have nothing significantly to say about myself.

Ahead of we turn to the small basket of quotes we picked for you, we can also pass along a couple of our personal consolations. 1, its a lot better to be interesting enough to be talked about than to be the interested celebration whos doing the talking. Two, gossips empty gambits take spot in a playground, really, on a seesaw. The kid who delights to babble sees you way up there the larger the far better  and thinks that by putting you down he or she will place himself or herself up. Tada!

Now, we turn to what other individuals have gossiped about it. It seems, not surprisingly, that brilliance has enlivened the subject only rarely.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the energy of conversation but not the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw

I know thats a secret, for its whispered everywhere. William Congreve

They come with each other like the Coroners Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. Congreve

I hate to spread rumors, but what else can you do with them? Amanda Lear

If you havent got something excellent to say about anybody come and sit by me. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends. Harold Nicolson

Im named away by certain enterprise but I leave my character behind me. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Right here is the entire set! A character dead at every single word. Identical Sheridan

There is only one particular factor in the world that is worse than becoming talked about, and that is not becoming talked about. Oscar Wilde

A expert athlete of the tongue. Aldous Huxley

Social sewage. George Meredith

Foul whisperings. William Shakespeare (At times referrred to in gossip as Billy Wigglestick) note brokering information