Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

Pascal, Blaise

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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

Pythagoras

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

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

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

10.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

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

14.

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

Will Rogers

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Crane, George W.

17.

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

18.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

19.

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

Walters, Barbara

20.

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

Barker, Myrtle

21.

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

Ouida

22.

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

23.

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

Smith, Liz

24.

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

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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

26.

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

Rogers, Will

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.

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

29.

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

Jong, Erica

30.

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

Proverb, Jewish

31.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

34.

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

John Tudor

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

38.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

46.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

47.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.