Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Will Rogers

2.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

3.

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

4.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

5.

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

Parker, Dorothy

6.

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

Hugo, Victor

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

12.

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

13.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

14.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

19.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

Conrad, Joseph

21.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

Pythagoras

26.

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

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

30.

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

Smith, Liz

31.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

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

John Tudor

35.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Crane, George W.

40.

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

Will Rogers

41.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

42.

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?