Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Gossip

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Walters, Barbara

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

Will Rogers

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Smith, Liz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Shriner, Herb

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Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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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

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

Ouida

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Will Rogers

25.

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

Barker, Myrtle

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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

Cato the Elder

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Proverb, American

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

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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

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At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

John Tudor

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

Pythagoras

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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

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

Crane, George W.

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Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

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Sight before hearsay.