Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

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Best Quotes about Gossip

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

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.

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

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

Barker, Myrtle

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

Smith, Liz

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

11.

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

Wilson, Earl

12.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

13.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

14.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

15.

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

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.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

24.

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

25.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

26.

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

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Conrad, Joseph

28.

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

29.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

30.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

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

Pascal, Blaise

33.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

35.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

Rogers, Will

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Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.

Monica Fairview

40.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

41.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

42.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

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

Shriner, Herb

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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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

46.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

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

Ouida

49.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

50.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt