Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

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

Wilson, Earl

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Jong, Erica

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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

Pascal, Blaise

10.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

11.

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

Shriner, Herb

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

Parker, Dorothy

16.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

17.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

18.

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

19.

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

John Tudor

20.

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

21.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

26.

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

Conrad, Joseph

27.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

28.

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

29.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

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

Pythagoras

31.

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

Will Rogers

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

34.

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

Barker, Myrtle

35.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Will Rogers

39.

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.

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

44.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

46.

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

47.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

48.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

49.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

50.

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