Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Gossip
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.291
We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.403
A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.124, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin