Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Gossip

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

Shriner, Herb

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

Barker, Myrtle

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

12.

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

13.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

14.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

18.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

19.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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.

21.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

22.

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

23.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

24.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

25.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

26.

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

John Tudor

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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

28.

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

Walters, Barbara

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

Cato the Elder

31.

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

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Smith, Liz

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Parker, Dorothy

37.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Will Rogers

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, American