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

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

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Pythagoras

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Walters, Barbara

10.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

Parker, Dorothy

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

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

19.

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

Wilson, Earl

20.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Dworkin, Andrea

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

23.

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

28.

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

Crane, George W.

29.

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

30.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

31.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

32.

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.

33.

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

Barker, Myrtle

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

35.

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

36.

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

Rogers, Will

37.

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

38.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

40.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

41.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

42.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

43.

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

John Tudor

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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