Motivational Quotes

Gossip

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

2.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

3.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

4.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

5.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

6.

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

7.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

8.

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

9.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

12.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Jong, Erica

17.

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

18.

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

Parker, Dorothy

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

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

Wilson, Earl

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Ouida

26.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Jonathan Haidt

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Barker, Myrtle

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

34.

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

Shriner, Herb

35.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

36.

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

Conrad, Joseph

37.

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

38.

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

John Tudor

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

41.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

43.

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

Will Rogers

44.

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

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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

Cato the Elder

50.

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