Motivational Quotes

Gossip

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

- Sir Philip Sidney

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

2.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

3.

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

4.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

5.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Crane, George W.

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

15.

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

Walters, Barbara

16.

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

17.

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

Ouida

18.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

19.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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.

27.

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

Shriner, Herb

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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

Cato the Elder

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.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

33.

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

34.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Pythagoras

37.

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

38.

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

Hugo, Victor

39.

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

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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

Pascal, Blaise

43.

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

Barker, Myrtle

44.

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

Parker, Dorothy

45.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

46.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

47.

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

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.

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

Conrad, Joseph

50.

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

Will Rogers