Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Gossip

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Wilson, Earl

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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

10.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

Will Rogers

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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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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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

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

John Tudor

17.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

18.

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

Walters, Barbara

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

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

Ouida

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

32.

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

33.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

34.

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

Smith, Liz

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shriner, Herb

40.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

46.

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

Will Rogers

47.

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

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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

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

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry