#sip

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation. ↗

— Susan Wittig Albert

#truth #gossip

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#criticism #gossip #speech #gossip

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. ↗

— China Miéville

#secrets #stories #gossip

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#psychology #remaining-silent #reticence #silence #gossip

Lord, Please forgive Robert Johnson. ↗

— Anonymous

#delta #mississippi #music #forgiveness

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#gossip #prayer #life

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#explain #gossip #life #people #public-opinion

„So ist es,“ sagte die Herzogin, „und die Moral davon ist – Mit Liebe und Gesange hält man die Welt im Gange!“ „Wer sagte denn,“ flüsterte Alice, „es geschehe dadurch, daß Jeder vor seiner Thüre fege. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#fofoca #gossip #liebe #love #love

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#society #truth #gossip