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

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

Barker, Myrtle

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

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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 sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Proverb, Jewish

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

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.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

14.

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

Cato the Elder

15.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

21.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

22.

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

Jong, Erica

23.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

26.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

30.

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

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

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

Walters, Barbara

33.

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

Crane, George W.

34.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

Conrad, Joseph

36.

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

Ouida

37.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

41.

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

42.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Wilson, Earl

48.

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

Will Rogers

49.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

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.

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