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

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Crane, George W.

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

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

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

John Tudor

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Pythagoras

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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

13.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

14.

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

15.

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

Will Rogers

16.

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

17.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

18.

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

Wilson, Earl

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Bible

21.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

25.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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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.

27.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

28.

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

Barker, Myrtle

29.

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

30.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

31.

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

32.

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

37.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

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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