Motivational Quotes

Gossip

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

2.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

3.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

4.

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

Proverb, American

5.

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

Proverb, Jewish

6.

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

7.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

8.

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

9.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Jong, Erica

12.

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

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.

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

15.

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

16.

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

John Tudor

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

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

19.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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.

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.

22.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

23.

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

Will Rogers

24.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Smith, Liz

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

31.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

32.

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

33.

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

Walters, Barbara

34.

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

Shriner, Herb

35.

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

Crane, George W.

36.

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.