Backbiting Quotes:

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Spiritual, Energy, Waste, Backbiting

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

- Grace Metalious

source: Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

topic: Hate, War, Men, Backbiting

A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting ***** in the world!...

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Years, Months, World, Backbiting, Bad Years

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

- Voltaire

source: Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.201, Penguin

topic: Liars, Silly, Men, Hypocritical, Backbiting

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

- Frances Wright

source: Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

topic: War, Evil, Feelings, Unwise, Backbiting