Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Cato the Elder

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Rogers, Will

2.

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

3.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

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

7.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

8.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

9.

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

Wilson, Earl

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

16.

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

17.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

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

21.

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

Shriner, Herb

22.

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

Smith, Liz

23.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

24.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

26.

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

27.

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

Jong, Erica

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

29.

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

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

32.

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

33.

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

Barker, Myrtle

34.

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

35.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

38.

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

39.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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

Pythagoras

43.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

47.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

48.

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

49.

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?'