Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

Pythagoras

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

Will Rogers

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

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

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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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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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Crane, George W.

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

Smith, Liz

21.

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

22.

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

23.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

24.

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

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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

Walters, Barbara

31.

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

John Tudor

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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

35.

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

Bible

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

38.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish