Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Gossip

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Will Rogers

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

10.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

Crane, George W.

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

16.

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

Wilson, Earl

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

Shriner, Herb

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.

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

Ouida

23.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Pascal, Blaise

28.

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

Pythagoras

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

John Tudor

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

40.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

41.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

42.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

45.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

46.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

47.

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

48.

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

Walters, Barbara

49.

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

50.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish