Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Barker, Myrtle

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

10.

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

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

14.

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

Will Rogers

15.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

17.

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

Walters, Barbara

18.

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

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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

26.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

Will Rogers

28.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

29.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

30.

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

31.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

32.

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

Ouida

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Liz

35.

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

36.

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

Conrad, Joseph

37.

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

Barker, Myrtle

38.

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

John Tudor

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Shriner, Herb

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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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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

43.

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

44.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Cato the Elder

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