Rumor
See also: Slander
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people Barbara Walters
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret Walter Winchell
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more Seneca
I know nothing swifter in life than the voice of rumor Plautus
What some invent the rest enlarge Jonathan Swift
Everybody's business is nobody's business anonymous
"They say so" is half a lie Thomas Fuller
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly Samuel Johnson
Sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret Latin proverb
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it French proverb