Quotes About Gossip

It occurred to her then that people went on living until somebody told you they were dead. Perhaps it was a pity that anybody ever told anybody anything.

If one person tells a lie and ten people hear it and pass it on, does it make it true?

No one is any longer carried away by the desire for the good to perform great things, no one is precipitated by evil into atrocious sins, and so there is nothing for either the good or the bad to talk about, and yet for that very reason people gossip all the more, since ambiguity is tremendously stimulating and much more verbose than rejoicing over goodness or repentance over evil.

En aquella metrópoli de lenguas y cuchicheos, ni los oídos más finos oían algo fidedigno

Vecina y amiga. ¿Qué más tengo que decir? Por supuesto que las maliciosas revistas de escándalo de la ciudad llenaron columnas con insinuaciones y frases de doble sentido, pero ello no nos autoriza a ponernos a su nivel.

Haters will broadcast your failure, but whisper your success.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

Lady Wingfield had confided to a friend that the Queen was a loose woman.

A good turnout at church today. It had nothing to do with the mild weather and a desire to gossip and everything to do with my oratory skills, I am perfectly convinced. Indeed, if not for Mrs Attwood's new bonnet, I would have had the ladies' undivided attention. The gentlemen I was more certain of. They had no interest in bonnets, new or otherwise, and listened in pleasing silence, broken only by an occasional snore.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Of course the act of drinking tea was, in and of itself, quite troublesome, as it had been known to lead to all sorts of sins: idleness, gossip, political activity, subversive thinking.

Can't you stay with the other wives?' he wheedled. 'Please, just for now?' 'That prattling coven?' She screwed up her face. 'All they talk about is who's barren, who's unfaithful, and what the queen's wearing. They're idiots.' 'Have you ever noticed that everyone's an idiot but you?' She opened her eyes wide. 'You see it too?

By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively.

I make no judgements on hearsay.

Don't believe everything you hear today

Then Glenn Beck burned to death on his Internet program, right in front of his chalkboard, burned so hot his glasses fused to his face, and after that most of the news was less about who did it and more about how not to catch it.

Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip.

A lie can go around the world twice before the truth gets its socks on.

There is an old joke the chah'nas used to say; they said that among friends, a trouble shared is a trouble halved… but that among tavalai, a trouble shared is a trouble multiplied, retold, translated into five hundred tongues and turned into opera.

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'

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?

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.