Gossip Quotes

“The don in Crampton Hodnet being gossiped about does not win much sympathy as a victim, for, about to go off on a trip with a colleague he does not much like, he thinks that "at least they would be able to have a good talk about old times, rejoicing over those of their contemporaries who had not fulfilled their early promise and belittling those who had.”
― Joseph Epstein, Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit