Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Ouida

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

14.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

15.

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

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

Pythagoras

19.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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.

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

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

24.

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

Smith, Liz

25.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

26.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

27.

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

Crane, George W.

28.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

29.

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

30.

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

31.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

32.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

Barker, Myrtle

36.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Ouida

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Walters, Barbara

42.

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

43.

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

Wilson, Earl

44.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

45.

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

Cato the Elder

46.

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

47.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

49.

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

50.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.