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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
Gossip Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Gossip

1.
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Picabia, Francis

2.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Pope, Alexander

3.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

4.
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
Wilson, Earl

5.
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

6.
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

7.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Rogers, Will

8.
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.

9.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

10.
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Proverb, Jewish

11.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers

12.
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Barker, Myrtle

13.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Jong, Erica

14.
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

15.
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Proverb, Chinese

16.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil

20.
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
Stuart, Edwin H.

21.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Lawrence, D. H.

22.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Colton, Charles Caleb

23.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Beecher, Henry Ward

24.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Hugo, Victor

25.
To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

26.
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

27.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
Aleichem, Sholom

28.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Parker, Dorothy

29.
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

30.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
Phocion

34.
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
Bible

35.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.
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

37.
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

38.
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
Proverb, American

39.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

40.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Shriner, Herb

41.
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

42.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Steele, Sir Richard

43.
Sight before hearsay.
Proverb, Danish

44.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

45.
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

46.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Jong, Erica

47.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

48.
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney

49.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Pascal, Blaise

50.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Fielding, Henry


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