Quotes of Gossip - somelinesforyou

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

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

“ No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ”

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Cato the Elder

“ 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

“ Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. ”

- Jane Austen

“ 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

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

- John Tudor

“ 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

“ 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

“ Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? ”

- Phocion

“ No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ”

- Spanish proverb

“ Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ”

- Will Rogers

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

- Will Rogers

“ The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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. ”

- George Eliot

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

- Joseph Conrad

“ O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade; Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. ”

- William Cowper

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

- Barbara Walters

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

- Will Rogers

“ Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ”

- Walter Winchell

“ Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. ”

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Earl Wilson

“ 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. ”

- Lisa Kirk

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

- Liz Smith

“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”

- Hosea Ballou
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