Motivational Quotes

Gossip

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Gossip

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Barker, Myrtle

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

10.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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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

17.

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

18.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

19.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

20.

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

John Tudor

21.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

22.

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

Conrad, Joseph

23.

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

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

25.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

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

27.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Walters, Barbara

31.

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

Smith, Liz

32.

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

Will Rogers

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

Pythagoras

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

45.

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

46.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.