Gossiping And Rumors Quotes

• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

  Philip Sidney

  Gossip, Rumor, Behind Your Back

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

  Earl Wilson

  Gossip

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

  Will Rogers

  Business, Long, Gossip

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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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 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

  Jealousy, Heart, People

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• 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

  Dirty, Gossip, Rumor

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13

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• The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

  Douglas Malloch

  Liars, Lying, Gossip

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

  Will Rogers

  Time, People, Gossip

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 190, 1958.

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

  Frank A. Clark

  Evil, Gossip, Rumor

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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, Gossip, Rumor

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

  William Shakespeare

  Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe

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

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

  Justin Timberlake

  Fake People, Truth, Reality

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

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  Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  Marie Curie

  Thoughtful, Ideas, Gossip

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

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Reality, Gossip, Claims

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

  Shana Alexander

  Squash, Gossip, Rumor

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• 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

  Funny, True Friend, Lying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Things In Life

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71

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• 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

  Play, Rumor, Monsters

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

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• 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

  Peace, Mean, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1850). “The autobiography of Benj. Franklin: Published verbatim from the original manuscript by his grandson Will. Temple Franklin. Edited by Jared Sparks”, p.75

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

  Alexander Pope

  Gossip, Rumor, Enlargement

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

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• 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

  Funny, Dog, Art

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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