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Gossip: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

You're good for Madge or good for Cis Or good for Kate, maybe: But what's to me the good of this While you're not good for me?— CHRISTINA ROSSETTI — Jessie Cameron. St. 3.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.— SAPPHO — Fragment. 101.

My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 14.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 4.

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; And nothing is at a like goodness still; For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too much.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 115.

Your great goodness, out of holy pity, Absolv'd him with an axe.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 263.

Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. S.— SHIRLEY — The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses. Sc. 3. L. 23.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.

Dialogue II. Man should be ever better than he seems. и.— SIR AUBREY DE VERE — A Song of Faith.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.— COWPER — Friendship. St. 17.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.— GEORGE ELIOT — Daniel Deronda. Bk. II. Ch. XIII.

He's gone, and who knows how may he re port Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?— MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 1350.

Foul whisperings are abroad.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 79.

If my gossip Report be an honest woman of Nothing's more dull and negligent her word.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 7.

This act is as an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.— Shakespeare — King John. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 18.