Gossip Quotes

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

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.