Sayings about Gossiping
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. ~ Traditional Proverb
Women never praise without gossiping. ~ Chinese Proverb
Whoever gossips about his relatives has no luck and no blessing. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Gossips always suspect that others are talking about them. ~ Yoruba Proverb
It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip. ~ Filipino Proverbs
The more souls the more gossip. ~ Chinese Proverb
Wolves never gossip about each other. ~ German Proverbs
There is gossip every day, but if no one listens anymore the gossip will die. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who gossips and he who listens to it deserve to be thrown to the dogs. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A gossip’s mouth is the devil’s postbag. ~ Gaelic Proverb
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth. ~ Jewish Proverbs
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~ Spanish Proverbs
He who gossips to you will gossip about you. ~ Lebanese Proverbs
Gossip needs no carriage. ~ Russian Proverbs
Better lie than gossip. ~ Indian Proverbs
Gossipers are the devil’s trumpeters. ~ French Proverb
Quotations about Gossiping
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind. ~ Author Unknown
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. ~ Author Unknown
Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. ~ Rev. George Dawson
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. ~ Primo Levi
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. ~ Octave Feuillet
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. ~ Will Rogers
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people. ~ Barbara Walters
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. ~ Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol
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
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ~ Erica Jong
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. ~ Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance. ~ Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort
All literature is gossip. ~ Truman Capote
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. ~ Liz Smith
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. ~ Bertrand Russell
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. ~ Alice Duer Miller
Old gossips are usually young flirts gone to seed. ~ James Lendall Basford
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ~ Ouida
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare’s definition of “echo,”–babbling gossips of the air. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Gossip isn’t scandal, and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. ~ Phyllis McGinley
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~ Author Unkonwn
A gossiper is the devil’s postman. ~ Croft M. Pentz
Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind. ~ Croft M. Pentz
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ~ F.H. Bradley
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others, destroy themselves like the serpents in ant-hills. ~ Chanakya
So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ~ Will Rogers
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ~ Walter Winchell
Conversation is when three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves. ~ Herb Shriner
If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. ~ James Fenimore Cooper
Gossip is nature’s telephone. ~ Sholom Aleichem
Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five. ~ Ivan Panin
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~ Author Unknown
The Puritan’s idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~ Wendell Phillips
We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. ~ Napoleon I, Maxims
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~ Benjamin Franklin
There are male as well as female gossips. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
A long-tongued, babbling gossip. ~ William Shakespeare
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~ Oscar Wilde
Gossip needn’t be false to be evil — there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. ~ Frank A. Clark
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
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ~ Oscar Wilde
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~ Khalil Gibran
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. ~ John Dryden
Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. ~ Author Unknown
Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. ~ Erica Jong
You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. ~ Ovid
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. ~ Joseph Conrad