Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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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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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pythagoras

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Walters, Barbara

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

John Tudor

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

31.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

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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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Cato the Elder

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