Gossiping And Rumors Quotes:

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

- Philip Sidney

topic: Gossip, Spanish Proverb, Spreading Rumors, Gossiping And Rumors

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Spiritual, Wind, Gossip, Blaming Others, Kept Secrets

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

- Sean Covey

source: Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

topic: Jealousy, Silly, Thinking, Gossiping And Rumors, You Jealous

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

- Earl Wilson

topic: Gossip, Gossiping And Rumors

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

- Will Rogers

topic: Business, Gossip, Long, Gossiping And Rumors

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Taken, Gossip, People, Kept Secrets, Verify

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

topic: Jealousy, Heart, People, Gossiping And Rumors

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

- George Eliot

topic: Dirty, Gossip, Taste, Bad Taste, Gossiping And Rumors

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

- Douglas Malloch

topic: Liars, Lying, Gossip, Gossiping And Rumors

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

- Will Rogers

topic: Time, Gossip, People, Like And Dislike, Gossiping And Rumors

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Evil, Gossip, Gossiping And Rumors, Idle Gossip

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

- Dolley Madison

topic: People, Gossip, Desire, Spreading Rumors, Source Of Happiness

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

topic: Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe, Gossiping And Rumors

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

- Ouida

source: Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.444, Broadview Press

topic: Running, Oil, Hands, Gossiping And Rumors

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

- Justin Timberlake

source: "New Again: Justin Timberlake". Interview with Emma Brown and Rebecca Wallwork, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2013.

topic: Fake People, Truth, Reality, Gossiping And Rumors

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

- Marie Curie

source: "Living Adventures in Science‎". Book by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1954.

topic: Thoughtful, Ideas, Gossip, Inquisitive, Marie

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

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Reality, Gossip, Claims, Gossiping And Rumors

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

- Shana Alexander

topic: Squash, Gossip, Trying, Gossiping And Rumors

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, True Friend, Lying, Spreading Rumors, Prime Minister

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Humor, Irish Author, Irish Proverbs, Epigrams

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

source: 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

topic: Play, Rumor, Monsters, Gossiping And Rumors

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

topic: Peace, Mean, Men, Gossiping And Rumors

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.130

topic: Gossip, Rumor, Enlargement, Spreading Rumors, Gossiping And Rumors

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

topic: Funny, Dog, Art, Spreading Rumors, Commercial Art

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

topic: Teenager, Thinking, Gossip, Being A Teenager, Gossiping And Rumors