Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

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

Pythagoras

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Will Rogers

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

11.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

13.

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

John Tudor

14.

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

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

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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.

17.

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

Shriner, Herb

18.

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

19.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Ouida

24.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

25.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

30.

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

Jong, Erica

31.

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

32.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

37.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

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.

42.

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

Pascal, Blaise

43.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

44.

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

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

Proverb, American

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Wilson, Earl