Gossip Quotes

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

~ Victor Hugo

He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own hands. He was willing to work in a ditch if others might fall therein. What mean things men will do to wreak revenge on the godly. They hunt for good men as if they were brute beasts - they that will not give them the fair chase afforded to the hare or the fox, but must secretly entrap them because they can neither run them down nor shoot them down. Our enemies will not meet us to the face for they fear us as much as they pretend to despise us. But let us look on to the end of the scene. The verse says he has fallen into the ditch that he has made. Ah, there he is. Let us laugh at his disappointment. Lo, he is himself the beast. He has hunted his own soul. The chase has brought him a goodly victim. So should it ever be.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

~ Criss Jami

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

~ Gail Carriger

Perceptions? Yesugei didn't give a goat's toenail about perceptions, but society was society. ...'Who gives a billy's balls what one or two wives have to say?''Quite, father.' This was strong language, to cite the nether parts, stronger than toenails.

~ Bryn Hammond

I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

~ H.w. Brands

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.

~ Criss Jami

But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don’t know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don’t ‘bloom’ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,— adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.

~ Ernest Vincent Wright

Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.

~ Grace Burrowes

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

~ Oscar Wilde

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.

~ Edith Wharton

Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

~ Shilpi Somaya Gowda

People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.

~ T.f. Hodge

Sure, Mom.They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.

~ A.s. King

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

~ Victor Hugo

She struts into the hair salon, her mouth filled with a rotten egg of gossip, unshelled, filled with decay. As soon as she sits down she bites into the shell, and the stink of her lies fills the air, its goo dripping down her chin. With her new haircut she exits, leaving behind the putrid evidence that she’s as corrupt as the egg of lies she spread.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

~ Criss Jami

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

~ T.f. Hodge

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

~ Criss Jami

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print

~ John Clare

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters, pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: everyone is entitled to know everything. But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

~ Dexter Hawk

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

~ Elizabeth George

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.

~ Anthony Liccione

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

~ Arnold Bennett

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere- and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.

~ Jane Austen

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

~ Suzy Kassem

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Gossip is a Sin just like all other sins that not only hurts those it is spoken about and slanders their reputation, but it also hurts the one who speaks it and the one who listens. Gossip is cruel & usually is a result of jealousy or bitterness. Either way, Stop the cycle of gossiping and start being loving instead.

~ Heather Wolf

The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

~ Monika Ramzy

The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own hunting shirts to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

~ Suzy Kassem