There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

Listen carefully how people speak about others to you. That's the way they speak about you to others.

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.

Are you what others say and think you are?  Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?