Quotes about gossip

"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 on gossip
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"Gossip is nature's telephone."

Aleichem, Sholom on gossip   

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

Barker, Myrtle on gossip   

"Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on gossip   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on gossip   

"With well doing you may put to silence foolish men."

Bible on gossip   

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

Bible on gossip   

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

Bierce, Ambrose on gossip   

"Speak no evil of the dead."

Chilo on gossip   

"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on gossip   

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

Colton, Charles Caleb on gossip   

"They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week."

Congreve, William on gossip   

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

Conrad, Joseph on gossip
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"Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire."

Crane, George W. on gossip   

"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 on gossip   

"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 on 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 on gossip   

"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 on gossip
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"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

Fielding, Henry on gossip   

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

Fuller, Thomas on gossip   

"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 on gossip   

"Nobody's interested in sweetness and light."

Hopper, Hedda on gossip   

"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 on gossip
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"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory."

Hubbard, Elbert on gossip
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"For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern."

Hugo, Victor on gossip   

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

Jong, Erica on gossip   

"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed."

Jong, Erica on gossip   

"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 on gossip
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"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 on gossip
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"Never trust the teller, trust the tale."

Lawrence, D. H. on gossip
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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 on gossip   

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

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt on gossip
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"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 on gossip   

"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 on gossip   

"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. on gossip   

"She poured a little social sewage into his ears."

Meredith, George on gossip   

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

Ouida on gossip   

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

Parker, Dorothy on gossip   

"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on gossip   

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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 on gossip