Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

2.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

6.

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

7.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

8.

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

Rogers, Will

9.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

13.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Parker, Dorothy

16.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Wilson, Earl

20.

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

Shriner, Herb

21.

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

Crane, George W.

22.

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

Cato the Elder

23.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Jong, Erica

26.

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

Will Rogers

27.

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

28.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

30.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

37.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

38.

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

39.

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

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

Pythagoras

41.

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

42.

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

John Tudor

43.

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

Smith, Liz

44.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

45.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

46.

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

47.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

48.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

49.

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

50.

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