25 Top Quotes About Gossip

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-Benjamin Franklin

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
-Philip Sidney

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

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.
-Aesop

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
-Dolley Madison

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
-Elbert Hubbard

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
-Johann Kaspar Lavater

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
-Plautus

The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
-Pope Francis

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
-Marie Curie

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
-Miguel Angel Ruiz

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.
-Merrit Malloy

I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

-Jeff Garlin

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
-Laurie Halse Anderson

Gossip is the Devil's radio.
-George Harrison

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
-Phyllis McGinley

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
-Charles Spurgeon

Don't waste your time with explanations people only hear what they want to hear.
-Paulo Coelho

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
-Errol Flynn

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
-Alexandre Dumas

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
-Sean Covey

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
-Truman Capote

 

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
-Joseph Conrad