Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Quoted in Gert Jonkers, "Gore Vidal, the Fantastic Man," Butt, No. 20 (7 April 2007)
2000s
“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=&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)
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“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.
“History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Quoted in Gert Jonkers, "Gore Vidal, the Fantastic Man," Butt, No. 20 (7 April 2007)
2000s
Context: Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it’s gossip with some point to it. That’s why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer
Source: You Oughta Know By Now
“That most knowing of persons – gossip.”
Is qui scit plurimum, rumor.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame, line 1.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame
