Motivational Quotes

Gossip

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

- Drew, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

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

Will Rogers

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

Pythagoras

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

John Tudor

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

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

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Shriner, Herb

11.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

12.

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

13.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Pascal, Blaise

18.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

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

Wilson, Earl

21.

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

22.

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

Conrad, Joseph

23.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Crane, George W.

27.

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

Jong, Erica

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

31.

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

32.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Ouida

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Parker, Dorothy

39.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

41.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

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

43.

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

Barker, Myrtle

44.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

45.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Gossip is nature's telephone.