Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

2.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

3.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

5.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

6.

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

Barker, Myrtle

7.

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

8.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

9.

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

Will Rogers

10.

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

11.

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

Jong, Erica

12.

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

13.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

14.

Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

16.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

17.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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

19.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

20.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

Rogers, Will

22.

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

Smith, Liz

23.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

25.

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

Conrad, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

29.

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

Pythagoras

30.

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

Bible

31.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

32.

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

33.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

34.

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

Pascal, Blaise

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Wilson, Earl

37.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

38.

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

Cato the Elder

39.

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

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

43.

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

44.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

45.

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

Proverb, American

46.

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

47.

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

Crane, George W.

48.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

Ouida

50.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.