Quotes About Gossip

People start talking about you and spreading false information, and it can really affect your spirit. So faith is very important to me.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

Do not hold on to the bitterness, Isabelle, it will eat at your body like worms, and you will ruin your future because of it. I was not always this unhappy. I know what people call me behind my back

Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.

few things can destroy the unity of a church like gossip. A unified church is powerful. Gossip tears apart that unity and renders a church powerless.

We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves.

But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?

SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.