Gossip Quotes, Quotations & Sayings



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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

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

If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Don’t wash your dirty linen in public.
Proverb

Her first economic drive will be to replace X-ray by hearsay.
Gwyn Thomas

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, ‘that which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business’.
Izaak Walton

The gossip of two women will destroy two houses.
Arabic proverb

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
Mark Twain

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Douglas Adams

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.
Bible

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele, Sr.

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
Anonymous

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell

Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
Dave Barry

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

There’s no smoke without fire.
Proverb

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.
Errol Flynn

Listeners never hear good of themselves.
Proverb

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde

Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.
Proverb

A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much.
Bible

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde

A tale never loses in the telling.
Proverb

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