G is for Quotes about Gossip

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.  ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth


  What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.  ~Chinese Proverb


 No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.  ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926


  When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.  ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911


The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.  ~Author Unknown


The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.  ~Wendell Phillips, attributed


Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.  ~Author Unknown


Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.  ~Barbara Walters


Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.  ~Frank A. Clark


It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.  ~Dolley Madison


I It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.  ~Errol Flynn


 Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.  ~Shana Alexander


  A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.  ~John Tudor


The biggest liar in the world is They Say.  ~Douglas Malloch


Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.  ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1735


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