Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Jong, Erica

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

8.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

9.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

11.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

12.

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

Will Rogers

13.

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

Smith, Liz

14.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Crane, George W.

17.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

20.

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

Conrad, Joseph

21.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

22.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

23.

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

Pythagoras

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Walters, Barbara

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

31.

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

Ouida

32.

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

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

35.

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

Will Rogers

36.

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

John Tudor

37.

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

Wilson, Earl

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Barker, Myrtle

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

47.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

48.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

49.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

50.

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