Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

10.

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

Barker, Myrtle

11.

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

12.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

13.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

14.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

15.

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

16.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

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

18.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

19.

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

Crane, George W.

20.

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

Conrad, Joseph

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

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

29.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

John Tudor

36.

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

37.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Parker, Dorothy

42.

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

Shriner, Herb

43.

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

Pascal, Blaise

44.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

45.

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

Walters, Barbara

46.

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

Bible

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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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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.

49.

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

Pythagoras

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

Cato the Elder