Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Gossip is nature's telephone.

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

Barker, Myrtle

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Will Rogers

11.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Ouida

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

John Tudor

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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

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

Pythagoras

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hugo, Victor

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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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

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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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No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney