Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Rogers, Will

2.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Pope, Alexander

6.

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

7.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

8.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

12.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

15.

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

Shriner, Herb

16.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

18.

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

Will Rogers

19.

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

20.

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

Pascal, Blaise

21.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

Jong, Erica

23.

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

Cato the Elder

24.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

27.

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

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

30.

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

Ouida

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

34.

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself,'Why should I tell it?'

Johann K. Lavater

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

42.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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.

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

45.

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