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

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Ouida

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

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

13.

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

Conrad, Joseph

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

16.

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

Will Rogers

17.

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

Pascal, Blaise

18.

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

19.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Wilson, Earl

23.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

24.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

27.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

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

30.

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

Cato the Elder

31.

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

Rogers, Will

32.

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

Jong, Erica

33.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

34.

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

Crane, George W.

35.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

36.

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

Barker, Myrtle

37.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

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

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

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

Shriner, Herb

43.

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

Walters, Barbara

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

John Tudor

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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.