Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Gossip is nature's telephone.

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Gossip

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Pythagoras

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rogers, Will

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

10.

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

11.

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Kirk, Lisa

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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Fuller, Thomas

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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Walters, Barbara

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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

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

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

Jong, Erica

19.

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

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

21.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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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

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

Will Rogers

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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

Proverb, American

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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

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

Will Rogers

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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

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

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An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.

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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

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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Pascal, Blaise

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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

42.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Shriner, Herb

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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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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

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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

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Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Smith, Liz

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt