Gossip Quotes
+3Who brings a tale takes two away.
- Irish Proverb
+1I heard the little bird say so.
- Jonathan Swift
+1At every word a reputation dies.
- Alexander Pope
+1What some invent, the rest enlarge.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
- Proverb
+1Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare
+1Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
- Phocion
+1No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
- Sir Philip Sidney
+1Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb
+1Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
- Napoleon
+1No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
- William Russell
+1Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
+1May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
- Anonymous
+1Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.
- Ethel Watts Mumford
+1That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
- Izaak Walton
+1You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
- Ovid
+1Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
- Shana Alexander
+1To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.
- Anonymous
+1It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.
- Errol Flynn
+1To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Gossip is what no one claims to like — but everyone enjoys.
- Joseph Conrad
+1Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.
- Will Rogers
+1What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
- Chinese Proverb
+1What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
- Jewish proverb
+1A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
- John Tudor
+1Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
- Liz Smith
+1None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
- Charles Caleb
+1What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
- Edgar Watson Howe
+1There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
- F.H. Bradley
+1A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
- Ouida
+1If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt
+1Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
- Pythagoras
+1Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
- Publilius Syrus
+1The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1There isn’t much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
- Kin Hubbard
+1Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
- Josiah Gilbert
+1So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
+1The Puritan’s idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
- Wendell Phillips
+1Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
