Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Jong, Erica

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Bible

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

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

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

John Tudor

11.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

12.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Parker, Dorothy

14.

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

Hugo, Victor

15.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

17.

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

18.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Wilson, Earl

25.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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

35.

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

Will Rogers

36.

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

Rogers, Will

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

40.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

41.

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

Walters, Barbara

42.

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

Cato the Elder

43.

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

Ouida

44.

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

45.

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

Pythagoras

46.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

47.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

48.

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