Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

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Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Cato the Elder

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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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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Wilson, Earl

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Shriner, Herb

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Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Will Rogers

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

24.

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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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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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, American

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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

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Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Smith, Liz

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

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

Ouida

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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

John Tudor

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

Parker, Dorothy

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.