Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

2.

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

Smith, Liz

3.

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

Hugo, Victor

4.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

5.

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

Proverb, Jewish

6.

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

7.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

8.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

9.

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

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Jong, Erica

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

18.

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

Crane, George W.

19.

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

Cato the Elder

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

28.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

29.

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

30.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

31.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

33.

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

Parker, Dorothy

34.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

37.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

38.

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

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

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

41.

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

Conrad, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

Pascal, Blaise

44.

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

Proverb, American

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

49.

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

50.

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