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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

  Philip Sidney

  Rumor, Behind Your Back, Spanish Proverb

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

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Scary, Narrative

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Secret, Confidant

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, Awful

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

  Plautus

  Eye, Witness, Ten

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• 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.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Flower, Boys, College

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sisterhood, Media

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  World, Awareness, Whole

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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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