Motivational Quotes

Gossip

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

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Gossip

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Smith, Liz

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

Parker, Dorothy

10.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Meredith, George

11.

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

12.

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

Pythagoras

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Barker, Myrtle

20.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

21.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

22.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

23.

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

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

Shriner, Herb

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

34.

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

Ouida

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

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

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

John Tudor

44.

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

45.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

46.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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

Cato the Elder