Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Smith, Liz

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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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 ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Adams, James Truslow

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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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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

15.

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

Proverb, American

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

Barker, Myrtle

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

18.

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

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

24.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

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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

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Will Rogers

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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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Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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

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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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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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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

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Cato the Elder