John Dryden Quotes

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

People like to run their mouths.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Gossip is conversation about people.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

I have such a big mouth.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

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The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.