Why Gossip Quotes
Gossip simply depicts words spoken behind the subject of the discussion. The idea of gossip revolves mostly around people speaking about other people in a way that portrays them in a bad light to other people. This article hopes to help discourage the behavior and help people embrace more wholesome behaviors.
What Parents Should Know
- Gossip is an anti-social behavior that makes those being talked about look bad.
- Gossip creates stress and promotes conflict and emotional stress for those being gossiped about.
- Talking about gossip with kids can help them deal with gossip issues and help them embrace better behaviors toward other people.
What To Discuss With Kids
- The act of gossip is an indirect form of bullying, and kids should know that bullying and gossip is not the right way to act toward others.
- The word 'gossip' was first seen in Shakespeare and came from the word 'godsibb' in Old English. The word Is also a synonym for tattling and dishing.
- Gossip has been used in various ways throughout history. It was used to mean 'a child's baptism in the 11th century. It has also had other meanings.
Famous Gossip Quotes
"Let's just be honest about it. Gossip, in its essence, is a form of retaliation; You're trying to get back at the person who offended you by talking about them behind their back." - Rick Warren
"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress." - Liz Smith
"Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude." - Joyce Meyer
“People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.” - Ellen DeGeneres
"To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest." - Mother Teresa, 'The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living'
"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. ” - Benjamin Franklin
"How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same." - Steve Maraboli
"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." - Socrates
"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them." - Will Rogers
"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth." - Justin Timberlake
"Words spoken are like eggs broken." - Sheri Glewen
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." - Bertrand Russell
"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, 'Splendor'
"Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs." - Henry David Thoreau
"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners." - Gloria Swanson
"Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules." - Douglas Adams
“Whoever gossips to you, will gossip about you.” - Spanish Proverb
"There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it." - Kin Hubbard
“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
"If you gossip - you need to hush. Now. If you listen to gossip - you need to stop. Now. If you are a victim of gossip - you need to become a victor. Now." - Jeff Abrams, 'Sticks and Stones'
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." - Kahlil Gibran
Stop Gossiping Quotes
“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.” - L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea
“Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.” - Jewish Proverb
“Words spoken can never be recalled.” - Wentworth Dillon
"Gossip is easy, politics is hard." - Tabitha Soren
"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
"The biggest liar in the world is They Say." - Douglas Malloch
"I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone." - Gail Carriger
“If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all.” - Aesop
"A coward talks to everyone but You." - Shannon L. Alder
"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
“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.” - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Subjective secondhand speech is exemplified by gossip, which hearsay is sometimes likened to." - Jennifer Andrus, 'Entextualizing Domestic Violence'
"If you are a victim of rumors, the best thing you can do is go on with your life. Learn to be undisturbed, and time will do the talking. Gossip needn't be false to be evil – there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around." - Frank A. Clark
"He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends." - Charlotte Mae Davis
“What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.” - Jewish Proverb
"I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt." - Blake Lively
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. - Kevin Spacey
"It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard." - Jude Morgan
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” - Marie Curie
"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself," - Marcus Aurelius
Listening to Gossip Quotes
"Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present." - P. J. O'Rourke
"We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them." - Cato, the Elder
“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” - George Bernard Shaw
"Heinlein Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip." - Erma Bombeck
"Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone." - Peter Diamandis
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” - Oscar Wilde, 'Lady Windermere's Fan'
“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.” - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” - Michael J. Fox
"Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles. “ - Korean Proverb
"Gossip is poison." - Gisele Bundchen
“How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.” - Steve Maraboli, 'Life, the Truth, and Being Free'
“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ” - Will Rogers
"If you are prone to gossip, you may want to reexamine your own needs and wants." - Byron Pulsifer
"Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world." - Dianne Sylvan
I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters." - Claire Fox
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys." - Joseph Conrad
Quotes About People Who Gossip
"Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip." - Steve Toltz
"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people." - Barbara Walters
"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips." - Amos Oz
"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center." - Dwight Eisenhower
“Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?” - Sean Covey
"Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people." - Richelle E. Goodrich
"He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue." - Mark Twain
"A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends." - Proverbs 16:28
“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.” - China Miéville
"I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month." - Penelope Cruz
“People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.” - Blake Lively
“Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.” - Publilius Syrus
"It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.” - Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement." - George Bancroft
"When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women." - Marilyn Monroe
"It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information." - Mercedes Lackey
“Who brings a tale takes two away.” - Irish Proverb
“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.” - Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it." - Mary Stewart
“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.” - Shannon L. Alder
“Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven’t said to that someone.” - Iyanla Vanzant
