Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

Rogers, Will

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pythagoras

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

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Will Rogers

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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

13.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

14.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

16.

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

Shriner, Herb

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

18.

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.

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

Crane, George W.

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

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

23.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Will Rogers

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Jong, Erica

35.

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

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

Bible

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

Cato the Elder

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