Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Barker, Myrtle

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

14.

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

Cato the Elder

15.

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

Bible

16.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

John Tudor

17.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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

Pythagoras

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

23.

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

Conrad, Joseph

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

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

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

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

Will Rogers

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

38.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

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

41.

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

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

Crane, George W.

43.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

44.

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

45.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

46.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

47.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Smith, Liz

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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