Motivational Quotes

Gossip

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

- Sir Philip Sidney

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Walters, Barbara

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

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

John Tudor

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Will Rogers

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No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

11.

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

Will Rogers

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

Barker, Myrtle

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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

18.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

19.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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.

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

28.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

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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.

35.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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