Famous Quotes about Gossip
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
– Khalil Gibran
Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.
– Author Unknown
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
– Socrates
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
– Paulo Coelho
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
– Spanish Proverb
Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
– Habeeb Akande
Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
– Unknown
The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
– Lemony Snicket
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
– Marie Curie
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
– L.M. Montgomery
They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.
– Pandora Poikilos
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
– Jewish Proverb
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
– Napoleon I
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
– Jane Austen
Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don’t say it to your face.
– Courtney Milan
Bad news has good legs.
– Richard Llewellyn
Those we murder with our mouths often live longest.
– Anonymous
Quotes and Saying about Gossip
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.
– Vera Nazarian
Don’t talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.
– Chris Vonada
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
– Will Rogers
No matter how carefully you choose your words, they’ll always end up being twisted by others.
– Anonymous
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Concentrate on fixing yourself rather than wasting time gossiping of others.
– Oscar Gumari
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don’t.
– Earl Wilson
People will question all the good things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought.
– Unknown
Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.
– Ivan Panin
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
– Joseph Conrad
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
– Plautus
Gossip is nature’s telephone.
– Sholom Aleichem
Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.
– Justin Timberlake
First law of gossip – there’s no point knowing something if somebody else doesn’t know you know it.
– Ben Aaronovitch
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
– Benjamin Franklin
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
– Oscar Wilde
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
– Edgar Watson Howe
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.
– Shannon L. Alder
More Quotes about Gossip
People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
– Barbara Walters
Once you have money and fame, the next thing you should expect is scandal and shame.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
– Shannon L. Alder
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
– Oscar Wilde
It’s only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it’s gathering information.
– Mercedes Lackey
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
– Ouida
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
– Shana Alexander
Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.
– Erica Jong
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
– Winston Churchill
Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.
– Will Rogers
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
The important thing isn’t what other people think you are; it’s who you are.
– Shannon L. Alder
Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.
– Dianne Sylvan
When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.
– Sonia Rumzi
An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can’t afford to buy into it.
– Anthony Liccione
Gossip never goes away, no matter where you are in life.
– Miranda Kenneally
Gossip is more popular than literature.
– Hugh Leonard
Doesn’t matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.
– Felder Rushing
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
– Unknown
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
– Elbert Hubbard
Words must be weighed, not counted.
– Unknown
Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.
– Croft M. Pentz
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
– Anna Godbersen
Don’t tell me about others cause soon you’ll tell others about me.
– Anonymous
