Gossip

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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

Edgar W. Howe

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Topic

Gossip Reputation

Speaker

Edgar W. Howe

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Howe, Edgar W. Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe. Crane, 1911.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Topic

Gossip Criticizing others

Author

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt. Embroidered on a pillow in her sitting room. c. 1980.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Everyone's a critic Gossip

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1605 1600s 16th century

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Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

Hesiod

Works and Days

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Topic

Effects of gossip Gossip

Author

Hesiod

Source

Works and Days

Medium

Poem

Genre

Didactic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 761-764.

Current Citation

Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 761-764.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The School for Scandal

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Topic

Gossip

Speaker

Mrs. Candour

Author

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Source

The School for Scandal

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play) Comedy of manners Comedy

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Performed by John Palmer, Frances Abington, William 'Gentleman' Smith, and Jane Pope. 1777, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Dover Publications, 1991, act 1, sc. 1.

All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World

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Topic

Gossip

Author

Anthony Powell

Source

The Acceptance World A Dance to the Music of Time

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World. Vol. 3, London: Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4.

Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Friends and enemies Friends Enemies Gossip

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Advice

Language

English

Time

1739 1730s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1739.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

I’m much more comfortable criticizing people behind their backs.

George Costanza

Seinfeld

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Topic

Criticizing others Gossip

Speaker

George Costanza

Actor

Jason Alexander

Source

Seinfeld

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

"The Engagement." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Berg, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 7, episode 1, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1995.

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Topic

Gossip Friendship

Author

Blaise Pascal

Source

Pensées

Medium

Epigram

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1662 1660s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 101.

Current Citation

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 101.