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Speak no evil of the dead. (Simpson Wallis)
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. (Simpson Wallis)
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. (Simpson Wallis)
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. (Simpson Wallis)
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. (Simpson Wallis)
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection. (Simpson Wallis)
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. (Simpson Wallis)
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. (Simpson Wallis)
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. (Simpson Wallis)
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. (Simpson Wallis)
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. (Simpson Wallis)
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory. (Simpson Wallis)
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. (Simpson Wallis)
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. (Simpson Wallis)
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. (Simpson Wallis)
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. (Simpson Wallis)
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. (Simpson Wallis)
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower. (Simpson Wallis)
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower. (Simpson Wallis)
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. (Simpson Wallis)
She poured a little social sewage into his ears. (Simpson Wallis)
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