gossip

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

I__l tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.

If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

Knowledge is currency here....

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.

Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you go around ruining the reputation of others. Because what goes around comes around for sure.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well. When Christopher was doing his workout, Pilates would bring one of his assistants over to watch, rather as the house surgeon brings an intern to study a patient with a rare deformity. __ook at him!_ Pilates would exclaim to the assistant, __hat could have been a beautiful body, and look what he__ done to it! Like a birdcage that somebody trod on!_ Pilates had grown tubby with age, but he would never admit it; he still thought himself a magnificent figure of a man. __hat__ not fat,_ he declared, punching himself in the stomach, __hat__ good healthy meat!_ He frankly lusted after some of his girl students. He used to make them lie back on an inclined board and climb on top of them, on the pretext that he was showing them an exercise. What he really was doing was rubbing off against them through his clothes; as was obvious from the violent jerking of his buttocks.

You must learn to ignore what people say,_ Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. __ou__l be much happier that way._ Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. ____e learned that while gossip about others is often true, it__ never true when it is about oneself.

Spreading rumours is our national past time

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

there are few things harder to imagine than other people__ conversations about yourself.