Echoes of Rumor: Exploring Gossip in Quotes

Whispered Words: Dive into our digital sanctuary of insightful quotes on gossip. Explore a tapestry of perspectives, from cautionary tales to humorous quips, navigating the labyrinth of whispers that weave through society. Unravel the power of words as we decode the complexities and consequences of gossip, one quote at a time.

Inspirational Quotes About Gossip

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. – Joyce Meyer

Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. – Unknown

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. – Proverb

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven’t said to that someone. – Iyanla Vanzant

Words spoken can never be recalled. – Wentworth Dillon

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. – Blake Lively

Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles. – Korean Proverb

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. – Shannon L. Alder

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another. – Pandora Poikilos

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave. – Criss Jami

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. – Marie Curie

Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks. – Shannon L. Alder

How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. – Steve Maraboli

Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?- Sean Covey

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with I’m really concerned about __________________ ,(fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).- Brian P. Cleary

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.- Erma Bombeck

People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.- Ellen DeGeneres

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.- Bertrand Russell

People will question all the good things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought.- Unknown

If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all. – Aesop (c.620-560 BC)

Whoever gossips to you, will gossip about you.- Spanish Proverb

What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth. – Jewish Proverb

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.- Unknown

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. – Lawrence G. Lovasik

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.- Frank A. Clark

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.- Eleanor Roosevelt

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.- Marcus Aurelius

Who brings a tale takes two away.- Irish Proverb

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.- Author Unknown

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

They say’ is often a great liar.- Proverb

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.- Edward Wallis Hoch

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. – Publilius Syrus

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.- Jewish Proverb

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.- George Bernard Shaw

Those who are busy discussing your life are probably not happy about theirs.

Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Surround yourself with people that talk about visions and ideas, not other people.

If your foot slips, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue slips, you cannot recall your words. – Martin Vanbee

Words are powerful. Don’t let it be the knife that hurts someone.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Henry Thomas Buckle

Those who aim to bring you down is already below you.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho

We all need to be talked about once to learn how to uncare what others think of us.

Those who gossip with you will later gossip about you.

A coward talks to everyone but YOU. – Shannon L. Alder

Let today be the day you speak only the good you know of other people and encourage – others to do the same. – Steve Maraboli

What you spread, you attract. Let it be kindness, gratitude, compassion, and positivity.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. – George Bernard Shaw

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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

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

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

Quotes About Gossip And Jealousy

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own.

Gossiping only reveals the insecurities of the gossiper, not the truth about the person being talked about.

Jealousy is the cousin of insecurity.

Gossip is just a cheap distraction from dealing with our own issues.

Jealousy eats away at the soul like a silent poison.

Gossip often says more about the gossiper than the person being gossiped about.

Jealousy is the enemy of progress.

Gossip is a disease of the mind that spreads like wildfire.

Jealousy blinds us to our own potential.

Gossip is the weapon of the weak.

Jealousy is the thief of joy. – Theodore Roosevelt

Gossip is the devil’s radio.

Jealousy is the art of making comparisons with illusions.

Gossip is the lazy way to feel important.

Jealousy is a symptom of lack of self-confidence.

Gossiping about others won’t make you a better person.

Jealousy is a cancer that consumes from within.

Gossip is like a boomerang, it always comes back to you.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. – Fulton J. Sheen

Gossip is the coward’s revenge.

Jealousy is the rust of the soul.

Gossip is the enemy of trust.

Jealousy is a manifestation of one’s own inadequacies.

Gossip is the devil’s megaphone. – C.S. Lewis

Jealousy is the art of counting other people’s blessings instead of your own.

Gossip is a poison that kills friendship.

Jealousy is the art of wasting time.

Quotes About Gossip And Karma

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

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

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

Gossip is the Devil’s radio.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

The only gossip I’m interested in is things from the Weekly World News – ‘Woman’s bra bursts, 11 injured’. That kind of thing.

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.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

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

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I’m out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I’ve forgotten what I’ve read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I’ve just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

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.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

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

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don’t take it personally you are immune.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

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

If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

History is merely gossip.

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.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

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

Quotes About Gossip And Judgement

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

It is the gossip columnist’s business to write about what is none of his business.

Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that’s just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

I don’t want to be involved in endless media gossip.

All literature is gossip.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers – the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

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

That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

If they don’t depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

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

The Puritan’s idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I’ve got a Doppelganger somewhere.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Historian – a broad-gauge gossip.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

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

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

Gossip is like a secret weapon that destroys trust and tarnishes relationships.

Gossip is the venom that sows discord in the hearts of men.

Jealousy is the grave in which love is buried.

Gossip is the weapon of small minds.

Jealousy is the coward’s revenge for feeling inferior.

Gossip is the devil’s art.

Jealousy is the art of being miserable.

Gossip is the currency of the insecure.

Jealousy is the art of making illusions appear real.

Gossip is the poison we drink hoping others will die.

Jealousy is the art of making someone else’s success your failure.

Gossip is the confession of an insecure heart.

Gossip is the coward’s art of destruction.

Gossip is the cancer of society.

Jealousy is the art of comparing your behind-the-scenes with someone else’s highlight reel.