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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Conrad, Joseph

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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

Walters, Barbara

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

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

10.

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

Crane, George W.

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Bible

13.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

16.

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

Barker, Myrtle

17.

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

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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

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Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

Ouida

21.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Will Rogers

24.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Will Rogers

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

31.

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

32.

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

Cato the Elder

33.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

34.

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

35.

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

Jong, Erica

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

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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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