Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Gossip

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

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

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

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.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Pythagoras

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

Pascal, Blaise

14.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

15.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Barker, Myrtle

19.

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

20.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

21.

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

Will Rogers

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

23.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

24.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

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

26.

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

Shriner, Herb

27.

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

Cato the Elder

28.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

Walters, Barbara

30.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

31.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

32.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

33.

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

Jong, Erica

34.

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

35.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Smith, Liz

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Rogers, Will

43.

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

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

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

Conrad, Joseph

46.

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

Crane, George W.

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

50.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius