Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

Pythagoras

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

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

Will Rogers

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

Shriner, Herb

10.

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

Conrad, Joseph

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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

Ouida

13.

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

Crane, George W.

14.

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

Pascal, Blaise

16.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

17.

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

18.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

19.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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

23.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

26.

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

27.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

28.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

30.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

31.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

34.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Barker, Myrtle

37.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

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

39.

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

Parker, Dorothy

40.

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

Walters, Barbara

41.

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

Will Rogers

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

46.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

47.

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

48.

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

Wilson, Earl

49.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

50.

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