Motivational Quotes

Gossip

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

- Barker, Myrtle

Best Quotes about Gossip

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Horace

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Crane, George W.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Cato the Elder

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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.

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

Proverb, American

12.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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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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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

21.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Pythagoras

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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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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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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.

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Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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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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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch

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

John Tudor

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Ouida

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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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