Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Pascal, Blaise

2.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

3.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

4.

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

Crane, George W.

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, American

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

Will Rogers

11.

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

12.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Wilson, Earl

16.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

23.

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

24.

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

Smith, Liz

25.

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

Barker, Myrtle

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Walters, Barbara

30.

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

Conrad, Joseph

31.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

34.

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

Will Rogers

35.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

36.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

39.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

40.

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

Cato the Elder

41.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

42.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

Ouida

48.

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