651 Quotes About Gossip

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

Abantu abathanda indaba zabantu. Abazithandi bona. Ngoba indaba zabantu soze zikusize ngalutho, futhi soze zilungise impilo yakho.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Quiet restraint speaks volumes against gossip.

Gossip is the person; gossip is the talk also, suggesting that a useless speech is synonymous with a senseless speaker.

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.