Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Proverb, American

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

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

Barker, Myrtle

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Will Rogers

12.

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

Jong, Erica

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

15.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

16.

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

17.

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

Wilson, Earl

18.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

Cato the Elder

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Pascal, Blaise

22.

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

Parker, Dorothy

23.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

John Tudor

27.

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

Pythagoras

28.

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

29.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

35.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

36.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

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 hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch

39.

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

Walters, Barbara

40.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

41.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Will Rogers

43.

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

44.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

48.

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

49.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish