Gossip Quotes
54 quotations about Gossip
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
At every word a reputation dies.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Sight before hearsay.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Speak no evil of the dead.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Authors on Gossip
Sholom Aleichem
American Proverb
Myrtle Barker
Pierre De Beaumarchais
Henry Ward Beecher
Bible
Ambrose Bierce
Chilo
Chinese Proverb
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charles Caleb Colton
William Congreve
Joseph Conrad
Danish Proverb
Henry Fielding
Thomas Fuller
Hedda Hopper
Elbert Hubbard
Victor Hugo
Jewish Proverb