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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Gossip

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
At every word a reputation dies.
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.
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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?
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.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
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.
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Rumor grows as it goes.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Sight before hearsay.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Speak no evil of the dead.
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
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.
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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.
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.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
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.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.

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