Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

2.

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

Will Rogers

3.

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

4.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

5.

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

Parker, Dorothy

6.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

7.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

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

Will Rogers

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

14.

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

Smith, Liz

15.

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

Walters, Barbara

16.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

19.

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

Pythagoras

20.

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

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

23.

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

25.

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

Ouida

26.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

27.

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

Shriner, Herb

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

31.

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

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

33.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

37.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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