Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Gossip

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, American

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

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

Rogers, Will

13.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

14.

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

Smith, Liz

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Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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

John Tudor

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Bible

19.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

Barker, Myrtle

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

30.

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

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

Will Rogers

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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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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Crane, George W.

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

45.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

48.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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