Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Pope, Alexander

2.

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

Parker, Dorothy

3.

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

Cato the Elder

4.

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

5.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Shriner, Herb

7.

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

8.

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

9.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Pascal, Blaise

16.

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

Barker, Myrtle

17.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Walters, Barbara

22.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

24.

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

25.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Pythagoras

36.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

40.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

41.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

42.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

43.

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

Wilson, Earl

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

46.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

47.

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

48.

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

John Tudor

49.

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

Jong, Erica

50.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall