Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Rumor grows as it goes.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

2.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

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

4.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

5.

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

Shriner, Herb

6.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

7.

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

Will Rogers

8.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

10.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

11.

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

12.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

18.

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

Will Rogers

19.

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

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

23.

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

24.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

25.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

Cato the Elder

30.

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

Barker, Myrtle

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

Pythagoras

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

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

Smith, Liz

37.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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

John Tudor

43.

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

Jong, Erica

44.

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

45.

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

Wilson, Earl

46.

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

Bible

47.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

48.

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

49.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

50.

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