Quotes on gossip
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Churchill, Winston
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
Flynn, Errol
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
Franklin, Benjamin
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Proverb, Spanish
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Miller, Alice Duer
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Adams, Douglas
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Proverb, Jewish
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Alexander, Shana
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Russell, Bertrand
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Howe, Edgar Watson
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
Unknown, Author
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Walters, Barbara
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Phillips, Wendell
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Franklin, Benjamin