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In 1867, the great American writer Mark Twain embarked on what he wryly called his “Great Pleasure Excursion,” a journey through Europe that would later inspire his travelogue, The Innocents Abroad...

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, othe...

George Augustus Moore was an aristocratic writer, art critic, and dramatist. Influenced by the realist school in France, Moore was particularly influenced by Emile Zola. Ultimately, his writing would ...

In the ancient world, a place where the veil between the earthly and spiritual was easily pierced, rumors and gossip about great leaders being born of the gods, especially amongst royals, was somewhat...

Most of us are aware of various persecutions that took place during the first few centuries of the church’s existence. One particularly brutal local persecution took place during the reign of Nero, wh...

Gossip often veils itself in acceptable conventions such as “Have you heard…” or “Did you know…?” or “They tell me…” or “Keep this to yourself, but…” or “I do not believe it is true, but I heard that…...

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Never about, always to.

If there were no gratified hearers of ill reports, there would be an end of the trade of spreading them.

To gossip means to betray a confidence or to discuss unfavorable personal facts about another person with someone who is not part of the problem or its solution. Even if the information you discuss is...

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

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

A monk told his monastic leader, Poeman, “I am troubled in spirit, and I want to leave this place.” The old man said, “Why?” He said, “I have heard unedifying stories about one of the brothers. The...

Three essential rules when speaking of others are: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Much of gossip is envy in disguise.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.

William Shakespeare’s Othello is able to capture the heart of what it means to experience slander, or to have one “bear false witness’ perhaps better than any other: Who steals my purse steals trash;...

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

The power of speech is unfathomable. Gossip can never be undone. It is cruel, divisive, and demeaning. It alters the way people see another person forever. It robs the victim of dignity and opportunit...

Conversation is when three people are talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches.

“Why can’t you just be happy for me and then go home and talk behind my back later like a normal person?”

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.