Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

2.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

3.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

4.

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

Parker, Dorothy

5.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

6.

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

Proverb, American

7.

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

8.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Smith, Liz

9.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

10.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

11.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

16.

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

Jong, Erica

17.

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

Cato the Elder

18.

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

Wilson, Earl

19.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

20.

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

John Tudor

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

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

26.

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

Shriner, Herb

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Pythagoras

29.

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

Crane, George W.

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Jonathan Haidt

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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

Will Rogers

41.

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

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas