Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Steele, Sir Richard

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Pythagoras

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Walters, Barbara

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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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 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

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Jong, Erica

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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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.

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

Proverb, American

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

Parker, Dorothy

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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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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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Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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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

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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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

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