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 Walters

Rumor 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 Tudor

No 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.
--Anonymous

Scandal 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 Proverb

The 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 Longworth

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
--Jewish Proverb

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
--Chinese Proverb

Three 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. Lavater

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