Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

Proverb, American

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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

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

Pythagoras

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jong, Erica

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

10.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

13.

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

Ouida

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

18.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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

John Tudor

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

24.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

26.

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

Parker, Dorothy

27.

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

Walters, Barbara

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

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.

35.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Will Rogers

40.

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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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

44.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?