“Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.”
On Being Human http://books.google.com/books?id=hp0RAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;Gossips+are+only+sociologists+upon+a+mean+and+petty+scale&quot;&pg=PA326#v=onepage, The Atlantic Monthly, (September, 1897) <br class="br">1920s and later
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“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.
“It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.”
Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Intrigues
“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)
“Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.”
Stefan Zweig book The Post Office Girl
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
W. Douglas P. Hill (1884–1962) British Indologist
Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 117. (3.)
“Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Volume 1: Nightside the Long Sun (1993), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech to a Conservative dinner (26 June 1863), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 114
“Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)