Gossip Quotes

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.

I don't really listen to any of the gossip.

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

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.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

There's no smoke without fire.

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.

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!

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.

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.

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

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

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

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.