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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