- Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people. – Barbara Walters
- Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth. – Will Rogers
- Not everything you hear is good for talk. – Japanese Saying
- Gossip is the Devil’s radio. – George Harrison
- If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all. – Aesop
- Who brings a tale takes two away. – Irish Proverb
- The house of the loud talker, leaks. – African proverb
- Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles. – Korean Proverb
- You can’t sew buttons on your neighbor’s mouth. – Russian Proverb
- What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth. – Jewish Proverb
- Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. – Spanish proverb
- What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. – Chinese Proverb
- Good gossip is just what’s going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy. – Liz Smith
- Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. – Harry Truman
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. – Oscar Wilde
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. – Shana Alexander
- Little said is soonest mended. – George Wither
- In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- 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
- Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world. – Dianne Sylvan
- Doesn’t matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway. – Felder Rushing
- The biggest liar in the world is They Say. – Douglas Malloch
- Don’t let your hatred gossip. – Terri Guillemets
- If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am its prisoner. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. – Francis Bacon
- Gossip is nature’s telephone. – Sholom Aleichem
- No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. – Bertrand Russell
- Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. – Marie Curie
- It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip. – Unknown
- Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. – George Eliot
- Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. – Douglas Adams
- It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. – Errol Flynn
- There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. – Winston Churchill
- Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone. – Terri Guillemets
- Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. – Marcus Aurelius
- Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. – Jane Austen
- Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind. – Unknown
- Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell
- Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. – Richard Steele
- It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard. – Jude Morgan
- The worst thing about talk , is that there’s no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation. – Susan Wittig Albert
- A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip. – Vera Nazarian
- It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
- Where there is smoke there is fire. – Unknown
- Words once spoken can never be recalled. – Wentworth Dillon
Words spoken are like eggs broken. – Sheri Glewen
- Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back. – Unknown
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Khalil Gibran
- Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. – Shannon L. Alder
- It’s only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it’s gathering information. – Mercedes Lackey
- Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. – Henry Thomas Buckle
- He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. – Mark Twain
- We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. – Cato the Elder
- 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. – Alice Duer Miller
- A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. – Ouida
- Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don’t. – Earl Wilson
- Gossip needn’t be false to be evil, there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. – Frank A. Clark
- Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks. – Shannon L. Alder
- Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. – Marie Curie
- Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. – Anna Godbersen
- Never apologize before you are accused. – Charles I of Great Britain
- Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. – Joseph Conrad
- Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. – Liz Smith
- If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. – Oscar Wilde