Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

2.

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

Pythagoras

3.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

4.

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

Will Rogers

5.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

6.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

7.

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

8.

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

Ouida

9.

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

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

11.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Wilson, Earl

13.

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

Barker, Myrtle

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.

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

16.

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

Proverb, American

17.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

19.

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

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.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Smith, Liz

24.

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

Will Rogers

25.

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

Cato the Elder

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Walters, Barbara

29.

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

Parker, Dorothy

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

38.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

39.

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

40.

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

41.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

42.

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

John Tudor

43.

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