Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer
Source: You Oughta Know By Now
Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame, line 1.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame
Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer
Source: You Oughta Know By Now
“First law of gossip—there’s no point knowing something if somebody else doesn’t know you know it.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 11, “Those Foolish Things” (p. 239)
Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2005), p. 55.
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q=&quot;Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality&quot;&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">Variant: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. <br class="br">Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 190
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Variant: The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.