Gossip Quotations
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| Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. | |||
| - Shana Alexander | |||
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| Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. | |||
| - F.H. Bradley | |||
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| There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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| Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. | |||
| - Frank A. Clark | |||
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| It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. | |||
| - Errol Flynn | |||
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| Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. | |||
| - Benjamin Franklin | |||
| To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. | |||
| - Benjamin Franklin | |||
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| If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. | |||
| - Kahlil Gibran | |||
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| When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. | |||
| - Edgar Watson Howe | |||
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| Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared. | |||
| - Erica Jong | |||
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| If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. | |||
| - Alice Roosevelt Longworth | |||
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| The biggest liar in the world is They Say. | |||
| - Douglas Malloch | |||
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| A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. | |||
| - Ouida | |||
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| The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. | |||
| - Wendell Phillips | |||
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| What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| Who brings a tale takes two away. | |||
| - Irish Proverb | |||
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| What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. | |||
| - Jewish Proverb | |||
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| Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. | |||
| - Spanish Proverb | |||
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| If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. | |||
| - Alexis de Tocqueville | |||
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| Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. | |||
| - Barbara Walters | |||