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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Barker, Myrtle

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Will Rogers

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

10.

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

11.

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

Wilson, Earl

12.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Jong, Erica

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

20.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

21.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

22.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Cato the Elder

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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

28.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

29.

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

30.

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

Ouida

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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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

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

Will Rogers

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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Walters, Barbara

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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

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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

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

Rogers, Will

40.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

41.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

42.

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?