Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

8.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

9.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

14.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

15.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

16.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

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

Barker, Myrtle

20.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

21.

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

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

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

Crane, George W.

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

Wilson, Earl

29.

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

Conrad, Joseph

30.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

31.

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

Ouida

32.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

33.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

38.

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

39.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

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

John Tudor

45.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

46.

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

47.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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

Will Rogers

49.

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

Walters, Barbara

50.

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