Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about 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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

Walters, Barbara

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Barker, Myrtle

10.

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

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

13.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

14.

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

15.

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

Will Rogers

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

17.

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

18.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

Parker, Dorothy

21.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

23.

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

Jong, Erica

24.

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

25.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

26.

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

27.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

28.

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

Shriner, Herb

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

John Tudor

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Rogers, Will

38.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

44.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

45.

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

Smith, Liz

46.

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

47.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

48.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

49.

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

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

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