Laudator Temporis Acti

Euripides, Phoenician Women 198-201 (tr. David Kovacs):

Women by nature love to criticize, and once they have found trifling reasons to find fault, they invent still more, such is the pleasure they take in speaking ill of one another.

φιλόψογον δὲ χρῆμα θηλειῶν ἔφυ,
σμικράς τ᾿ ἀφορμὰς ἢν λάβωσι τῶν λόγων
πλείους ἐπεσφέρουσιν· ἡδονὴ δέ τις        200
γυναιξὶ μηδὲν ὑγιὲς ἀλλήλας λέγειν.

In my experience, men are just as prone to fault-finding and gossip as women, maybe even more. The passage reminds me of that funny scene from The Music Man:

[ALMA]
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little,
Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more.

[ALMA & ETHEL]
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little,
Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more.

[ALL THE LADIES]
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little,
Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more.

[MAUD]
Professor, her kind of woman doesn't belong on any committee.
Of course I shouldn't tell you this, but she advocates dirty books.

[HAROLD]
Dirty books?

[ALMA]
Chaucer!

[MAUD]
Rabelais!

[EULALIE]
Balzac!