Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Walters, Barbara

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

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

Pythagoras

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

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Shriner, Herb

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jong, Erica

11.

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

Smith, Liz

12.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

13.

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

Bible

14.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

15.

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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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

17.

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 ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Crane, George W.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

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

Will Rogers

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

John Tudor

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

Proverb, American

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Fuller, Thomas

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