Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

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

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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Crane, George W.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

10.

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

Parker, Dorothy

11.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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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

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

14.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Will Rogers

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Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Pythagoras

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Ouida

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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.

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Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

27.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Barker, Myrtle

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

Cato the Elder

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

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

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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

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Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

43.

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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