Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Gossip

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Will Rogers

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

11.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

12.

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

13.

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

Crane, George W.

14.

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

16.

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

Ouida

17.

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

18.

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

Wilson, Earl

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

24.

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

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

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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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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.