Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- John Tudor

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, American

6.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

7.

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

Ouida

8.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

9.

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

Pythagoras

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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

13.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

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.

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

16.

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

Smith, Liz

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

Shriner, Herb

19.

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

Cato the Elder

20.

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

Barker, Myrtle

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

25.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

26.

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

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

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

29.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

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.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

35.

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

36.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

37.

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

Will Rogers

38.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

Wilson, Earl

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

43.

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