How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. — Marvin J. Ashton
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. — Erica Jong
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. — Andrea Dworkin
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry
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
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. — Walter Winchell
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. — Proverbs
Those who gossip with you will gossip about you. — Edgar Allan Poe
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. — Joseph Conrad
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor
Discussion: What is right? Argument: Who is right? Gossip: Nothing is right. An insensitive time pass, polluting each others' mind. — Mahatria Ra
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. — Lisa Kirk
It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip. — Filipino Proverbs
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what’s real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases. — Ryan Higa
Short Gossiping And Rumors Quotes
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. — Bertrand Russell
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. — Errol Flynn
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic. — Bryan White
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. — Richard Steele
There was a rumor in my town that I beat Down syndrome. — Theo Von
Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. — William Greider
Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. — Stefan Zweig
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake
Gossiping And Rumors Image Quotes
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? — Sean Covey
Rumors excite the stupid, facts excite the smart.
Spreading Rumors Quotes
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. — George Washington
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. — Andy Warhol
Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators. — Eiji Yoshikawa
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed. — John Newton
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way. — Ali MacGraw
What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking or spreading rumors in the media; but saying look, we're going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that's what we do. — Noam Chomsky
Repeating a rumor is as vicious as starting one.
People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial. — Bassem Youssef
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. — E. B. White
Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial — Ed Furgol
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. — Learned Hand
Gossip Quotes
Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you. — Jay-Z
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. — Joyce Meyer
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. — Al-Ghazali
When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know. — Rumi
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. — Leonard Ravenhill
No Gossip Quotes
A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception. — Jaggi Vasudev
Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No. I just gotta focus on making money. Cause ain’t no going back. I’m gonna be famous forever. — Cardi B
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. — Henry Miller
The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick. — Bob Dylan
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
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. — George Washington
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. — Ernest Hemingway
I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging." — Gretchen Rubin
Did God really say that I couldn't tell my friends what so and so did yesterday? Does that really count as gossip? No, it's just venting, and venting is healthy right? Wrong! We are supposed to think about the things that are praiseworthy, not gossip worthy. — Heather Hart
Friends Gossip Quotes
I only f— with people who are secure enough to be happy for me and hype me up. I don’t want any ‘friends’ who fall silent during my success. — Cardi B
I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time. — Khushwant Singh
I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious. — Amy Poehler
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats. — Margaret Atwood
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. — Peter Stone
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day. — John Hay
I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made. — Blaise Pascal
When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along. — P. J. O'Rourke
With friends like these, who needs hallucinations? — John Astin
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call! — Taylor Swift
The biggest liar in the world is They Say. — Douglas Malloch
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. — Shana Alexander
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. — Beverley Mitchell
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures. — William Shakespeare
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth. — Justin Timberlake
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. — Will Rogers
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort. — Eleanor Robson Belmont
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. — Octave Feuillet
If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do? — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again. — Hesiod
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. — Benjamin Franklin
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. — William Shakespeare
The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations. — James C. Scott
The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world... — James C. Scott
I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what their expectations are and what their concerns are. Also what's in their imaginations, what's in their minds, even what their rumors are and what their gossip is. — Jon Lee Anderson
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that. — Queen Rania of Jordan
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious. — Margot Asquith
Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought. — Bob Saget
Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways. — Jack Levin
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier. — Shana Alexander
Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports. — Andre Norton
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are. — Stephen L. Carter
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. — Hilary Duff
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. — Philip Sidney
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