Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jong, Erica

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Will Rogers

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

15.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

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

20.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

21.

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

Barker, Myrtle

22.

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

Crane, George W.

23.

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

Shriner, Herb

24.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

Pythagoras

28.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Pascal, Blaise

30.

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

Walters, Barbara

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

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.

34.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

35.

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