Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Cato the Elder

2.

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

Wilson, Earl

3.

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

Jong, Erica

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, Chinese

7.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

8.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

9.

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

Smith, Liz

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Ouida

14.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Barker, Myrtle

17.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

26.

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

27.

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

Will Rogers

28.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

Parker, Dorothy

30.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

31.

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

Walters, Barbara

32.

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

Conrad, Joseph

33.

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

Proverb, Jewish

34.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Will Rogers

36.

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

Pascal, Blaise

37.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

38.

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

39.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

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.

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

43.

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

44.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

45.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

46.

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