Gossip needs no carriage.
The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.
Biography is higher gossip.
And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
Cats, he said succinctly. You two-legs think they're so inscrutable. They are the world's worst gossips. And they are everywhere.Andie had to agree to that statement. The Palace was full of cats. Lean...