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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
- Colton, Charles Caleb
Gossip Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Gossip

1.
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

2.
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

3.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

4.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder

5.
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

6.
At every word a reputation dies.
Pope, Alexander

7.
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Proverb, Jewish

8.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Lawrence, D. H.

9.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
Aleichem, Sholom

10.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare

11.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
Meredith, George

12.
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
Wilson, Earl

13.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.
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

15.
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
Beaumarchais, Pierre De

16.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Colton, Charles Caleb

17.
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

18.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida

19.
Sight before hearsay.
Proverb, Danish

20.
Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil

21.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Pope, Alexander

22.
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
Phocion

23.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Fielding, Henry

24.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers

25.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor

26.
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.

27.
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

28.
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

29.
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Proverb, Chinese

30.
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

31.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Fuller, Thomas

32.
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

33.
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

34.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Shriner, Herb

35.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Jong, Erica

36.
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
Proverb, American

37.
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
Stuart, Edwin H.

38.
To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

39.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

40.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Proverb, Jewish

41.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Walters, Barbara

42.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.

43.
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Smith, Liz

44.
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney

45.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Beecher, Henry Ward

46.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Shaw, George Bernard

47.
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

48.
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
Crane, George W.

49.
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

50.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras


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