Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Gossip

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Shriner, Herb

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

10.

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

John Tudor

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.

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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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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

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

18.

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

19.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

23.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Will Rogers

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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

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

Barker, Myrtle

29.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

33.

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

34.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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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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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

44.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

46.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

48.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Walters, Barbara