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Gossip Quotes




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

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

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



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