Quotes

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content...it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from catter to babble, and from babble to confusion. -Rene Daumal

A gossip goes about telling secrets, but one who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a confidence -Bible

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist and the consolation if the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past-Phyllis McGinley