Gossip Quotes

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

  Douglas Malloch

  Liars, Lying, Rumor

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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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• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

  Philip Sidney

  Rumor, Behind Your Back, Spanish Proverb

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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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• One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

  Plautus

  Eye, Witness, Ten

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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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• When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Lying, Circles, Deceit

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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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• 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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• Gossip is the Devil's radio.

  George Harrison

  Devil, Radio

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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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• 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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• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Hilarious, 4th Of July

  Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 and 1741.

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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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• 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.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Beautiful, Decision, Honor

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 28, 2016

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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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• 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

  Wicked Person, Envy, Judging

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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

  Mark Twain

  Men, Envy, Enemy

  Mark Twain, Arthur Grove Day (1975). “Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii”, p.171, University of Hawaii Press

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• My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

  Francis Picabia

  Behind My Back, Ass, Contemplating

  "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Dirty, Indulge In

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

  Johnny Depp

  Fake People, World News, Kind

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