Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

3.

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

Smith, Liz

4.

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

Ouida

5.

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

Hugo, Victor

6.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

7.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

8.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Cato the Elder

10.

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

John Tudor

11.

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

Conrad, Joseph

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

14.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

15.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

16.

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

Parker, Dorothy

17.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

18.

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

Will Rogers

19.

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

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

25.

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

26.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

27.

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

Proverb, Jewish

28.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

29.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

33.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Barker, Myrtle

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.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

38.

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

Shriner, Herb

39.

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

40.

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

Wilson, Earl

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.