Tuesday 6 November 2012

Gossips - Quotes

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So, does gossip. - Vera Nazarian

A gossiper is the devil's postman. - Croft Pentz

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbours are going to talk about you anyway. - Felder Rushing

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

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 just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. - Anna Godbersen

Gossip is like military intelligence and it is strategically vital to have up to the minute reports on other peoples loyalties and antagonisms. Shutting your ears to gossip is all very noble until you discover to your cost that someone you thought was a friend has made a business alliance with an enemy and is dutifully feeding all your gossip into his computer. - Unknown

Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five. - Ivan Panin

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. - Joseph Conrad
Gossip neednt be false to be evil – theres a lot of truth that shouldnt be passed around. - Frank A. Clark

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. - Earl Wilson

Gossip isn't scandal, and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. - Phyllis McGinley

Gossiping, like proud words, are arrogant, intolerant and savagely ignorant of the great fundamental truth – simplicity, humility and ordinary human decency. - Unknown

It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip. - Filipino Proverb

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenceless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. - Lawrence G. Lovasik

More people are run down by gossip than by automobiles. - Unknown

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more. - Unknown

People who talk and gossip and make it their business to be a busybody may never discover the truth about themselves for they will be too busy talking about others. - Unknown

So live that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

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

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly, most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely. - Bertrand Russell

There is one unbreakable rule in the gossip game. You must never betray your friends. - Unknown

There is, it seems, no such thing as idle gossip. It may be the vocal form of bitch-craft, but it has its humanitarian side too. It enables us to keep track of each other. - Unknown

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others, destroy themselves like the serpents in ant-hills. - Chanakya

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. - George Washington

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

Who brings a tale takes two away. - Irish Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Unknown

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