Best 155 Quotes About Gossip

This post contains some of the best Quotes About Gossip.

Quotes About Gossip

1. “A coward talks to everyone but YOU.” – Shannon L. Alder

2. “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” – Terry Pratchett

3. “A rumor is like a check–never endorse it till you’re sure it’s genuine.” ― Grenville Kleiser

4. “A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.” ― Richard Armour

5. “Always remember… Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

6. “And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.” – Kathleen O’Dell

7. “Anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

8. “Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.” – Alvin Adams

9. “Aren’t rumors great. Anyone can start them. They’re a wonderful way to put out feelers. It’s like getting the benefits of a publicist without paying one.” ― Michelle Beadle

10. “Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.” ― Orrin Woodward

11. “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ― Marie Curie

12. “Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

13. “Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.” — Benicio Del Toro

14. “Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.” ― Unknown

15. “But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It’s love without strings. It’s ideal.” – A.S. King

16. “Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.” ― Publilius Syrus

17. “Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.” – Mark Frost

18. “Death is a distant rumor to the young.” – Andy Rooney

19. “Denying rumors gave them more power.” – Unknown

20. “Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.” ― Author Unknown

21. “Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.” – John Irving

22. “Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” – Paulo Coelho

23. “Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.” ― Publilius Syrus

24. “Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.” ― Himanshu Chhabra

25. “Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.” — Christoph Waltz

26. “Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.” – Yolanda Hadid

27. “Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.” — Joshua Homme

28. “Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland

29. “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

30. “Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.” – P. J. O’Rourke

31. “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

32. “Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.” – Frank A. Clark

33. “Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.” ― Frank A. Clark

34. “Gossip needs no carriage.” – Russian Proverb

35. “Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.” ― Proverb

36. “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” – Henry Thomas Buckle

37. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

38. “Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn’t equate to gospel truth.” – Katie McGarry

39. “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

40. “I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil’s.” ― Jack Irons

41. “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

42. “I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with – that’s the way I was raised – but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.” — Zac Efron

43. “I don’t see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.” ― Callie Khouri

44. “I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.” – Barbara Walters

45. “I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.” – Venus Williams

46. “I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.” – Andy Warhol

47. “I haven’t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.” – Layne Staley

48. “I haven’t really addressed those rumors because why defend yourself against something that isn’t offensive?” — Johnny Galecki

49. “I hope people stop judging others by blindly following rumors.” – Sara Khan

50. “I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.” – Leonard Lauder

51. “I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.” – Adlai E. Stevenson II

52. “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

53. “I should never go with rumors because they’re often not correct.” ― Jason Statham

54. “I think that people who make judgements about other people they don’t even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don’t care what shallow people say about me.” – Nina LaCour

55. “I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers – the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.” – Beverley Mitchell

56. “I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.” – Chris Weitz

57. “I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!” ― John Newman

58. “I’ve discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.” ― Bobby Clarke

59. “I’ve heard rumors about myself that are true – and nobody likes that. But there’s actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there’s nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want – especially on chat boards.” – Christian Borle

60. “I’ve never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.” – Blake Lively

61. “Idle chatter feeds busy rumors.” – Ted Sanders

62. “If a rumor comes out that I’m gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.” — James Van Der Beek

63. “If you have any kind of sex appeal, people are quick to accuse, abuse, lie, assume, and make up rumors. And that’s not just in entertainment — that’s in life. Period.” – Mya

64. “If your foot slips, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue slips, you cannot recall your words.” – Martin Vanbee

65. “In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.” – Jason Statham

66. “Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.” – Shannon L. Alder

67. “Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?” ― Sean Covey

68. “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

69. “It’s not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it’s extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.” – Jeffrey Kluger

70. “Let me dispel a few rumors so they don’t fester into facts.” — Tom Schulman

71. “Let today be the day you speak only the good you know of other people and encourage – others to do the same.” – Steve Maraboli

72. “Little effort is needed to create a rumor, but a much greater effort must be made to deny it.” – Eraldo Banovac

73. “Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.” ― Jewish Proverb

74. “Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.” – Barbara Kruger

75. “Most gossip is envy in disguise.” – Matt Haig

76. “Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.” ― Octave Feuillet

77. “My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.” ― Queen Rania of Jordan

78. “Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.” – Brian Koslow

79. “Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume.” — Drake

80. “Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.” ― Selma Lagerlöf

81. “News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.” – Toba Beta

82. “No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.” – Bertrand Russell

83. “None of it was true but rumors are like germs. They spread and multiply almost in a breath and before you know it, everyone is contaminated.” – C.J. Tudor

84. “Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.” ― Shannon L. Alder

85. “Oftentimes, rumors burn white hot only to fizzle as fast as they ignited.” – Judy Smith

86. “Old rumors never die; nor do they fade away. They simply lay dormant for a while until the next appropriate time appears.” ― Terry Ann Knopf

87. “One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.” – Suzy Kassem

88. “Overly persuasive a woman’s ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.” ― Aeschylus

89. “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

90. “People just love rumors. They’re always saying things that aren’t true.” – Anuel AA

91. “People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.” ― Ellen DeGeneres

92. “People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.” ― Shiloh Fernandez

93. “People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it’s right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.” – Ben Mezrich

94. “People will question all the good things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought.” ― Unknown

95. “Please ignore rumors! I’ve had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don’t take them personally.” – Emma Bunton

96. “Rumor … often is fathered and mothered by false reports.” – Andre Norton

97. “Rumor dies when it hits the hardest soul.” – Unknown

98. “Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.” ― William Shakespeare

99. “Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.” ― Josh Billings

100. “Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don’t get rid of them.” ― Josh Billings

101. “Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.” – Unknown

102. “Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.” ― Will Rogers

103. “Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.” – Antoine Rivarol

104. “Rumors and lies about a person can be fabricated by anyone. But what matters is the truth between you and God.” ― Kailin Gow

105. “Rumors are always out there.” – Kevin Jonas

106. “Rumors are like a dent from a sledgehammer — you can repair it, but it will never be as it was before.” – Emma Chase

107. “Rumors are like a flame blown by the wind.” ― Nellie Nae Batson

108. “Rumors are like wildfire; you are burned up before you know it.” ― Kenneth D. Mcllroy

109. “Rumors are not news; but they sometimes foreshadow news.” ― Ernest Hamlin Abbott

110. “Rumors are usually nothing more than what jealous people wished were true of you.” – Unknown

111. “Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.” ― Stephen L. Carter

112. “Rumors generally grow deformed as they travel.” ― Edward Counsel

113. “Rumors of coal’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated.” – Alan Johnson

114. “Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings.” – Amit Abraham

115. “Rumors spread on nights like this, under the cold darkness.” – Moïra Fowley-Doyle

116. “Rumors travel faster then the speed of light.” – Sukant Ratnakar

117. “Rumors, at times, can be more severe than the truth.” ― Fuwa Aika

118. “Simple-minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you’re more intelligent.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana

119. “Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.” ― Erma Bombeck

120. “Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.” – Steve Maraboli

121. “The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

122. “The biggest liar in the world is They Say.” – Douglas Malloch

123. “The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.” ― Bob Dylan

124. “The kids threw the rumors out like lit matches, to see what would catch. I stayed silent, listening to the fizz and spark of their words, pretending I was water, putting them out.” – Erica Bauermeister

125. “The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts… How does the media do this? By quoting some ‘expert’… you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.” – Peter McWilliams

126. “The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.” – Will Rogers

127. “The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we’re not going to play that we don’t have a contract. … We got it worked out got it hammered out.” ― Ron Hargrave

128. “The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.” – Carole Radziwill

129. “The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” ― George Bernard Shaw

130. “The trouble with rumors was that they had the tendency to stick. To coat over your logic like tea stains on teeth. What was even more troublesome was that there had been times in the past when they turned out to be accurate.” – Tanaz Bhathena

131. “The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.” ― C. Northcote Parkinson

132. “There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.” – Bob Woodward

133. “There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I’m always the last one to know about these things, literally.” – Shawn Ashmore

134. “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.” ― Edward Wallis Hoch

135. “There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn’t show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.” – Sean Young

136. “There were all these rumors about me… so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasn’t around, people believed what they wanted.” ― Karen Black

137. “There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.” – Shannon Alder

138. “There’s nothing more poisonous to a community than rumors and gossips. They taint the good character of those who effortlessly stand out. They provide mediocre individuals with a means to become relevant. They set in like gangrene and eat away at the sense of decency that differentiates humans from animals.” – Wiss Auguste

139. “They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.” ― Pandora Poikilos

140. “They made burning statements with questions and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood comes alive. Words walking without a master.” – Zora Neale Hurston

141. “Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.” ― Charles R. Swindoll

142. “Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.” – Joyce Meyer

143. “We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

144. “What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.” ― Criss Jami

145. “What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.” ― Jewish Proverb

146. “When a rumor doesn’t go away it’s not a rumor.” ― Elton John

147. “Where don’t they come from? I suppose the majority of rumors are a combination of leaked information and the astounding imaginations of numerous storytellers. And, of course, the hope that things aren’t really as boring as they seem on the surface.” – Max Frei

148. “Who brings a tale takes two away.” ― Irish Proverb

149. “Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” – Spanish Proverb

150. “Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.“ ― Korean Proverb

151. “Words spoken can never be recalled.” ― Wentworth Dillon

152. “Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!” – Anthony Liccione

153. “You can hear rumors. But you can’t know them.” – Jay Asher

154. “You know what rumors are like like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they’re all over the place.” ― Rhys Bowen

155. “You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There’s nothing I can do about it.” — Michael Vartan

Spread the love

Quotes About Gossip

By Hadiah

Related Posts