Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

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Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Pascal, Blaise

2.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Ouida

8.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

9.

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

Cato the Elder

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

14.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

15.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

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

17.

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

Conrad, Joseph

18.

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

19.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

22.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

23.

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

Barker, Myrtle

24.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

25.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

26.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

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

Walters, Barbara

31.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

36.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

38.

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

Shriner, Herb

39.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Will Rogers

43.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Mcginley, Phyllis

47.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

48.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

49.

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

Smith, Liz

50.

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