Motivational Quotes

Gossip

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Rogers, Will

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Ouida

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Cato the Elder

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Smith, Liz

18.

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

Pascal, Blaise

19.

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

20.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

21.

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

Shriner, Herb

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

24.

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

Pythagoras

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

27.

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

Walters, Barbara

28.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

29.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

30.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Conrad, Joseph

34.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

35.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

37.

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

38.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

42.

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

43.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.