Widgongel wif word gespringeth. A roving woman gives rise to gossip.

-Anonymous
c.900  Maxims I, l.64.

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.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Daniel Deronda, bk.2, ch.13.

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

-Flecker,James Elroy
  'Brumana'.

It's anindulgencetosit ina roomand discuss yourbeliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Sara. Watch on  the Rhine, act 2.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

-Ingham, Sir Bernard
  Speech, 5 Feb.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  Fear of Flying, ch.6.