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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

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

Smith, Liz

8.

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

9.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

13.

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

Cato the Elder

14.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

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

Walters, Barbara

16.

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

17.

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

Conrad, Joseph

18.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Will Rogers

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

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

Crane, George W.

29.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

30.

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

Jong, Erica

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Shriner, Herb

37.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

42.

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

Barker, Myrtle

43.

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