A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

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.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.