Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Barker, Myrtle

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

13.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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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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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

18.

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

Parker, Dorothy

19.

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

20.

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

Walters, Barbara

21.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

23.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shriner, Herb

33.

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

Smith, Liz

34.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

35.

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

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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.

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

38.

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

39.

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

Pythagoras

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

John Tudor

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