May 18

21 Great Quotes About Gossip

Whether you’ve been a gossip, or been gossiped about, you’ll enjoy these quote about the habit of gossiping. Feel free to ell someone about his list! Here are twenty-one great quotes about gossip…Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.–
Will Rogers Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.–Barbara WaltersRumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.–Will Rogers A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.–John TudorNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.–Bertrand Russell No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.–Sir Philip Sidney To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.–AnonymousScandal is gossip made tedious by morality.–Oscar Wilde Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?–Phocion Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.–Spanish ProverbThe only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.–Will Rogers Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.–William Shakespeare If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.–Alice Roosevelt LongworthWhat you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.–Jewish ProverbWhat is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.–Chinese ProverbThree may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.–Benjamin Franklin History is merely gossip.–Oscar Wilde 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 Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.–Shana Alexander 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. LavaterPlease click on the author’s name (above the article) to read more of her work on Associated Content.