Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

2.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

3.

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

4.

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

Shriner, Herb

5.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

6.

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

7.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

Jong, Erica

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Will Rogers

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

15.

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

Cato the Elder

16.

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

Will Rogers

17.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Conrad, Joseph

22.

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

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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.

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

29.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

30.

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

31.

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

Pascal, Blaise

32.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

33.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

34.

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

Smith, Liz

35.

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

36.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

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

38.

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

John Tudor

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

43.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

44.

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

45.

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

Walters, Barbara

46.

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

Wilson, Earl

47.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

48.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil