(180 quotes found)
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue”
Mark Twain
“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.”
“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein
“Who gossips to you, will gossip of you”
Turkish Proverb
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“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
“The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Rogers
“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.”
Buddha
