Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

Gossip is the devil's radio.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

If anyone speaks evil of you, so live that none will believe it.

The only fair way to talk about somebody is to speak as though you know he was listening in.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us.

There are male as well as female gossips.

I will speak ill of no man, not even in matters of truth; but rather excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasion speak all the good I know of everybody.

To listen to gossip both creates and encourages gossip. No listeners, no gossip. It is as simple as that.