Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Conrad, Joseph

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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

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.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Smith, Liz

13.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

14.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Shriner, Herb

18.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

19.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Will Rogers

23.

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

Wilson, Earl

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

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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.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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.

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

Walters, Barbara

32.

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

Pythagoras

33.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Barker, Myrtle

35.

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

36.

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

Cato the Elder

37.

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

Parker, Dorothy

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Jong, Erica

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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