"Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to such unedifying conversation as about kings, robbers, ministers…"

"A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go."

"Gossip brings out the creativity in the dullest souls."

"Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, Edith Wharton, and Henry James, novelists who had a strong interest in gossip and mad…"

"To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…"

"Three sins there are which work more harm than all else in the world — gossip, cruelty, and superstition — because th…"

"What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because that's what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip…"

"Be Impeccable with Your Word... Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the pow…"

"One keeps silent and is thought to be wise, the other makes himself hated because of his gossiping. One remains silen…"

"He's my friend who speaks well of me behind my back."