Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

2.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

3.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

4.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Fuller, Thomas

8.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

9.

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

10.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

11.

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

Jong, Erica

12.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

Proverb, American

16.

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

17.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

18.

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

19.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

20.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

21.

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

Ouida

22.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

23.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

24.

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

Barker, Myrtle

25.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

Cato the Elder

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

Walters, Barbara

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

37.

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

38.

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

Crane, George W.

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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

Smith, Liz

42.

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

43.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Will Rogers

45.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

49.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

50.

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