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Best Quotes about Gossip

1.
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
Drew, Elizabeth

2.
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

3.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
Dyke, Henry Van

4.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare

5.
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
Levi, Primo

6.
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
Wilson, Earl

7.
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
Crane, George W.

8.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Jong, Erica

9.
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
Harvey, William

10.
Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.
Monica Fairview

11.
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

12.
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney

13.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Conrad, Joseph

14.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Fielding, Henry

15.
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Proverb, Jewish

16.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Steele, Sir Richard

17.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Adams, James Truslow

18.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Shaw, George Bernard

19.
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Proverb, Chinese

20.
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
Stuart, Edwin H.

21.
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
Bible

22.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Pope, Alexander

23.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor

24.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

25.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

26.
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Scott, Paul

27.
At every word a reputation dies.
Pope, Alexander

28.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers

29.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Fuller, Thomas

30.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself,'Why should I tell it?'
Johann K. Lavater

32.
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
Mcginley, Phyllis

33.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
Mcginley, Phyllis

34.
Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.
Jonathan Haidt

35.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

36.
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
Phocion

37.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Beecher, Henry Ward

38.
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
West, Rebecca

39.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Jong, Erica

40.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

41.
Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil

42.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Rogers, Will

43.
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
Bible

44.
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Smith, Liz

45.
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Picabia, Francis

46.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

47.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder

48.
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.
Edward Wallis Hoch

49.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Eliot, George

50.
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Bierce, Ambrose


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