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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

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

3.

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

Parker, Dorothy

4.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

5.

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

Rogers, Will

6.

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

7.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Smith, Liz

12.

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

Jong, Erica

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Ouida

17.

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

18.

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

Will Rogers

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

21.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Will Rogers

27.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

32.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

33.

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

Proverb, American

34.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

37.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

38.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

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

Conrad, Joseph

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

43.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Jewish

46.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

John Tudor

49.

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

Wilson, Earl

50.

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