Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

2.

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

Wilson, Earl

3.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

4.

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

5.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

6.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

7.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

8.

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

9.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

10.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

11.

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

12.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

13.

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

Jong, Erica

14.

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

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

16.

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

Cato the Elder

17.

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

Proverb, American

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

23.

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

Shriner, Herb

24.

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

Proverb, Jewish

25.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

28.

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

Pythagoras

29.

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

30.

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

John Tudor

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

35.

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.

36.

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

Will Rogers

37.

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

Will Rogers

38.

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

Parker, Dorothy

39.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

40.

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

Walters, Barbara

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Smith, Liz

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

48.

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

49.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

50.

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