Gossip Quotes - Page 8

• If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

  Hesiod

  Evil, Speech, Speak

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• If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

  Confucius

  Punishment, People, Expectations

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• Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

  Jean Vanier

  Ignorance, People, Envy

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.51, Paulist Press

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• Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Secret, Language

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

  William Hazlitt

  Should, Said, Certain

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.76

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• Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Ancient, Myth

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• Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

  Grant Cardone

  News, Garbage, Quitting

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017

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• Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

  John Lydon

  Trying, Tools, Should

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• A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.

  Beth Ditto

  Band, Weird Things, Said

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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• When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Guilty

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• I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

  William Shatner

  Minutes, Celebrity Life, I Can

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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  Tamara Mellon

  Care, Great Business, Building

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• Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Dying, Care

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• Life would be boring without gossip.

  Vladimir Putin

  Would Be, Boring

  "The return of Putin: does it actually matter if world leaders go awol?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

  Andrew Marr

  Journalism

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• History is only gossip.

  Oscar Wilde

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• In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

  Christopher Pike

  World, Good Listener, Orators

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.

  Ivan Panin

  Two, Together, Five

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• It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Names, Doe

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Catchy

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• Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

  Bob Saget

  People, Rumor, Original Thought

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2012

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• When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Technology, Inward

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.221, Graphic Arts Books

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• Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Silence, Repeats

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• no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

  Bertrand Russell

  Virtue

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• The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

  Anna Wintour

  Reading, Simple, Might

  "Anna Wintour on Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Vogue Cover: “Entirely Our Idea to Do It,” West Didn’t Beg". www.usmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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