Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Walters, Barbara

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

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

Cato the Elder

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

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

11.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

12.

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

Jong, Erica

13.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

14.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

21.

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

Will Rogers

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

24.

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

Will Rogers

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Ouida

31.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

32.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

33.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

John Tudor

35.

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

36.

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

Smith, Liz

37.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

Crane, George W.

44.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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