Motivational Quotes
Gossip
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.
Best Quotes about Gossip
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Rogers, Will
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
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Colton, Charles Caleb
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Jong, Erica
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
Beaumarchais, Pierre De
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
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
Bible
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Barker, Myrtle
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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
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
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Proverb, Jewish
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Parker, Dorothy
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
Meredith, George
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Proverb, Chinese
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Proverb, Jewish
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Walters, Barbara
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Shaw, George Bernard
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Jong, Erica
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
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
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
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Pascal, Blaise
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.
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
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Conrad, Joseph
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
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Pope, Alexander
To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
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
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Fuller, Thomas
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Plautus, Titus Maccius
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
Proverb, American
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Bierce, Ambrose
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras
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
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Lawrence, D. H.
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
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
Bible
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Steele, Sir Richard
Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil
Sight before hearsay.
Proverb, Danish
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Shriner, Herb
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