Gossip: What people say about you

We decided, at the request of a reader, to write about gossip and along the way, look at what others have gossiped about it. We decided, at the request of a reader, to write about gossip and along the way, look at what others have gossiped about it.

What could be said under the influence of a potion confessional to the question: "Why always talk about other people?"

We imagined the answer, "Apparently, because I have much to say about me."

Before calling the basket of the prices we chose, we can also pass along a couple of our own consolations. One is much better to be interesting enough to be talked about than to be the party that is making headlines. Two empty gossip maneuvers take place in a playground, in fact, on a swing. The child who delights in stuttering you see above - the higher the better - and think that putting him or her down or she has put on. Tada!

Now we turn to what others have gossiped about it. It seems, not surprisingly, that has animated brilliance rarely subject.

"The trouble with her is that she has the power of conversation, but not the word of power." George Bernard Shaw

"I know it's a secret, for its whispered everywhere." William Congreve

"They come together as the investigation of the coroner, to sit on the reputation murdered the week." Congreve

"I hate to spread rumors, but what else can I do with them?" Amanda Lear

"If you have nothing good to say about anybody come sit with me." Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"He proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and squirt the mixture into all his friends." Harold Nicolson

"I'm out by companies in particular - but I leave behind me my character." Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Here is the whole thing! A character dead at every word." Same Sheridan

"There's only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and not talk." Oscar Wilde

"A professional athlete - the language." Aldous Huxley

Social purification. George Meredith

"Foul whisperings." William Shakespeare (sometimes gossip referrred Billy Wigglestick)