Motivational Quotes

Gossip

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

- Sir Philip Sidney

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Walters, Barbara

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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.

12.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

13.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Ouida

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Conrad, Joseph

19.

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

20.

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

Wilson, Earl

21.

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

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Barker, Myrtle

27.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

28.

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

29.

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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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

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

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

Bible

33.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rogers, Will

38.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

39.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

42.

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

43.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

44.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

45.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

46.

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

Proverb, American

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

Crane, George W.

49.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Scott, Paul

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish