Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Whispers
Whispers that, tinged with friendship, doubly would;
Pity, that injures; and concern, that kills.
Shenstone.—Elegy XXIII. Verse 18.
Cut men’s throats with whisperings.
Ben Jonson.—Sejanus, Act I. Scene 1.