Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Cato the Elder

2.

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

Ouida

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

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

Conrad, Joseph

5.

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

6.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

7.

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

John Tudor

8.

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

9.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Walters, Barbara

11.

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

12.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

13.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

14.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

15.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Will Rogers

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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.

23.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

24.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

25.

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

26.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

29.

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

30.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

32.

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

Barker, Myrtle

33.

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

Jong, Erica

34.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

36.

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

Shriner, Herb

37.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

39.

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

Pythagoras

40.

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

Smith, Liz

41.

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

Will Rogers

42.

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

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

Crane, George W.

44.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

45.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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