Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Sight before hearsay.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Will Rogers

2.

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

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

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

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

7.

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

Bible

8.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

9.

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

Ouida

10.

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

Wilson, Earl

11.

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

12.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

13.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

14.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Shriner, Herb

17.

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

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

20.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

28.

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

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

32.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

33.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

34.

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

35.

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

Parker, Dorothy

36.

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

Pythagoras

37.

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

Crane, George W.

38.

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

Will Rogers

39.

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

Conrad, Joseph

40.

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

Smith, Liz

41.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

42.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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.

44.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

48.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

50.

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?'