Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Rumor grows as it goes.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

8.

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

Barker, Myrtle

9.

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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

John Tudor

14.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, American

17.

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

Cato the Elder

18.

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

Will Rogers

19.

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

Walters, Barbara

20.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Will Rogers

26.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

28.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

32.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

37.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

38.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.