Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Pascal, Blaise

2.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

4.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

7.

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

8.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

9.

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

10.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Ouida

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Shriner, Herb

14.

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

Crane, George W.

15.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.

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

18.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

19.

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

Parker, Dorothy

20.

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

21.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

22.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

35.

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

Conrad, Joseph

36.

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

Will Rogers

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Barker, Myrtle

40.

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

John Tudor

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

46.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

47.

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

Will Rogers

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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