Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Sight before hearsay.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

2.

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

Bible

3.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

4.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

5.

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

Proverb, Chinese

6.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

7.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

8.

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

Ouida

9.

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

10.

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

Will Rogers

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Wilson, Earl

15.

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

16.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Pascal, Blaise

18.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

25.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

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.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

30.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

31.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

32.

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

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

Pythagoras

36.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

Barker, Myrtle

38.

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

Conrad, Joseph

39.

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

Parker, Dorothy

40.

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

41.

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

42.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

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

Proverb, American

46.

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

47.

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

Rogers, Will

48.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

49.

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

50.

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