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.

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

Ouida

2.

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

Parker, Dorothy

3.

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

4.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

5.

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

Hugo, Victor

6.

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

Pascal, Blaise

7.

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

8.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

9.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

10.

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

Rogers, Will

16.

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

Cato the Elder

17.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

18.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Crane, George W.

21.

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

Smith, Liz

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

24.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

26.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

27.

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

John Tudor

28.

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

29.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

35.

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

Conrad, Joseph

36.

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

37.

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

Shriner, Herb

38.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Barker, Myrtle

42.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

43.

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

Walters, Barbara

44.

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