Gossip Quotes

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mark Twain

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

A long-tongued, babbling gossip.

William Shakespeare

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Octave Feuillet

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

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Conversation is an exercise of the mind;gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

Unknown

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.

Joseph Conrad

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Horace

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Frank A. Clark
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