best quotations about
Gossip |
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Quotations
 | A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 15 likes |
| A generous confession disarms slander. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 12 likes |
 | The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 11 likes |
 | In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 11 likes |
 | Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 10 likes |
 | Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn't interested in people. — Barbara Walters, 1929-2022, American TV journalist 6 likes |
 | The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 6 likes |
 | I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 4 likes |
 | Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 4 likes |
| There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
| My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | Gossip: a lie made from truth. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 2 likes |
 | Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it’s gossip with some point to it. That’s why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 2 likes |
 | There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it. |
 | No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. |
 | 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. |
 | When gossip grows old it becomes myth. |
| Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously –the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk. |
 | Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. |
 | Men have always detested women‘’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. |
 | Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. |
Funny Quotes
 | If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884-1980, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt 5 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Don’t talk about the things you don’t know and when you know, don’t say anything. Ο αν μη ίδης, μη λέγε. Ειδώς σιγά. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Be afraid of slandering even if it’s not true. Ευλαβού τας διαβολάς καν ψευδείς ώσιν. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 6 likes |
