“Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.”
On Being Human http://books.google.com/books?id=hp0RAAAAMAAJ&q="Gossips+are+only+sociologists+upon+a+mean+and+petty+scale"&pg=PA326#v=onepage, The Atlantic Monthly, (September, 1897)
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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
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.”
Source: Intrigues
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q="Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality"&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III
Variant: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.”
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
“Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.”
Volume 1: Nightside the Long Sun (1993), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
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
