Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

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Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Ouida

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Hugo, Victor

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Pythagoras

11.

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

Walters, Barbara

12.

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

13.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

14.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

15.

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

Will Rogers

16.

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

Will Rogers

17.

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

Barker, Myrtle

18.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

19.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

22.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

23.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

24.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

26.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

Bible

27.

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

Cato the Elder

28.

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

Jong, Erica

29.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

32.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

33.

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

34.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

38.

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

Shriner, Herb

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Parker, Dorothy

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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