Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

2.

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

Will Rogers

3.

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

4.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

5.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

6.

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

Proverb, Jewish

7.

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

8.

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

Shriner, Herb

9.

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

10.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

11.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

23.

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

Pythagoras

24.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

25.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

26.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

28.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

29.

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

John Tudor

30.

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

31.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Walters, Barbara

34.

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

35.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

36.

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

Ouida

37.

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

38.

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

Wilson, Earl

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

41.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

42.

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

43.

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

Crane, George W.

44.

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

45.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

46.

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

Parker, Dorothy

47.

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

48.

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

Barker, Myrtle

49.

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

Proverb, American

50.

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