Backbite

• The cause of this is evident:--Sir Benjamin Backbite, in the first plot to which he belonged, was a principal personage; but, being transplanted from thence into one with which he has no connection, not only he, but his uncle Crabtree, and Mrs. Candor, though contributing abundantly to the animation of the dialogue, have hardly anything to do with the advancement of the story; and, like the accessories in a Greek drama, are but as a sort of Chorus of Scandal throughout. —  Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
• Backbite not, lest other men bit thy back; * Who saith aught, the same shall to him be addrest: —  Arabian nights. English
• Benjamin Backbite; and I believe he hates me worse than Asmodeus himself. " —  Thaddeus of Warsaw
• Roger de Backbite sneeringly told the King that —  Burlesques
• Backbite no man, 272/99. —  Early English Meals and Manners

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