Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

2.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

Barker, Myrtle

5.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

6.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

7.

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

Wilson, Earl

8.

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.

9.

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

Crane, George W.

14.

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

15.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

16.

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

17.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

19.

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

Jong, Erica

20.

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

Rogers, Will

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

John Tudor

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

29.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

30.

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

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Jewish

37.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

40.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Walters, Barbara

45.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

46.

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

47.

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

Smith, Liz

48.

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

49.

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

Pascal, Blaise

50.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius