Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Gossip

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Wilson, Earl

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

14.

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

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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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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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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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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

19.

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

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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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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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Will Rogers

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

John Tudor

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

41.

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

Ouida

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

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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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.