Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Smith, Liz

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

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

10.

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

11.

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

Wilson, Earl

12.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

13.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

14.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

15.

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

Will Rogers

16.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

17.

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

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

21.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

22.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

23.

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

24.

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

Barker, Myrtle

25.

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

Jong, Erica

26.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

27.

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

28.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

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

31.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

32.

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

33.

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

Cato the Elder

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Pythagoras

37.

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

Proverb, American

38.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

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

John Tudor

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

Shriner, Herb

42.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

43.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

44.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare