Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

2.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

3.

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

4.

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

Proverb, American

5.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

6.

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

7.

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

Hugo, Victor

8.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

9.

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

Conrad, Joseph

10.

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

Bible

11.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

12.

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

13.

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

Cato the Elder

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

17.

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

18.

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

Will Rogers

19.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

20.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

21.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

22.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

24.

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

25.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

26.

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

Parker, Dorothy

27.

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

28.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

29.

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

Barker, Myrtle

30.

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

31.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Shriner, Herb

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

Smith, Liz

34.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

35.

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

Proverb, Jewish

36.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

37.

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

Rogers, Will

38.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

40.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

41.

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

42.

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

Walters, Barbara

43.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

44.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Jong, Erica

49.

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

50.

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

Pythagoras