Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Gossip

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Pythagoras

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Cato the Elder

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

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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

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

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

19.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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

John Tudor

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

32.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

33.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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 hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch

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

Will Rogers

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

42.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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