Gossip Quotes

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Keeping Promises

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Knowledge, People, Society

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

  Philip Sidney

  Rumor, Behind Your Back, Spanish Proverb

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• The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Writings”, Library of America

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

  Pope Francis

  Bombs, Terrorist, Persons

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

  Jay-Z

  Rapper, Causes, Behind My Back

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Wind, Keeping Secrets

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Evil, Speak, Certain

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

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Good Life, Evil

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

  Sean Covey

  Jealousy, Silly, Thinking

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

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• 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.

  James Truslow Adams

  Wisdom, Peace, Faults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Richard Steele

  Fire, Tongue, Destruction

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• 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

  Lying, Blow, Fog

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• Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

  Herb Shriner

  Talking, Three, Conversation

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• No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Keeping Secrets, People

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.50, Routledge

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Reality, Claims, Enjoy

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

  Dolley Madison

  People, Rumor, Desire

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• Gossip is the Devil's radio.

  George Harrison

  Devil, Radio

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• Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love, Inspirational, Encouragement

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• 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.

  Ingmar Bergman

  People, Solitude, Behavior

  "Fictional character: Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg". "Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)", December 26, 1957.

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• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  Norman Vincent Peale, Marjorie Holmes, Arthur Gordon, Will Rogers (1995). “To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts”, Dimensions for Living

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

  Ouida

  Running, Hands, Oil

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

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• Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Letting Go, Garden

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 27, 2013

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Tea, Scandal

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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