Quotes About Gossip And Slander

#1. The monster of advertisement ... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat ...

Sarah Bernhardt

#2. I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

Heath Ledger

#3. Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

Oren Peli

#4. Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.

Elizabeth McGovern

#5. In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

Criss Jami

#6. Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#7. She liked Christian names, she liked those who used them as a sign of easy inclusion and intimacy, but to her the use of a name remained a proclamation, an action, an event. She was not accustomed to names.

Margaret Drabble

#8. Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

Criss Jami

#10. I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

Wayne Newton

#11. If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships.

Anthony Liccione

#13. Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.

Criss Jami

#14. Slander is poison to the soul.

David O. McKay

#15. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#16. The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

Ken Calvert

#17. We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

George Soros

#18. Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

H.W. Brands

#19. How much an ill word may empoison liking!

William Shakespeare

#20. Fear is like a looking glass, there you can see what you're really made of- Felicity Murphy (Weeping Well Vol. 1)

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#21. The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.

Victor Hugo

#22. You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.

David Halberstam

#23. To Lilo, Suleika, Constance, and Raul, thank you for coming up with some really good character names when I was in a pinch.

Kayti Nika Raet

#24. Each of us is here for a brief sojourn, for what purpose he knows not, though sometimes he thinks he feels it

Albert Einstein

#25. The discussion itself is what most matters, the fact that we can reason together easily, with a blend of wit and seriousness, never descending into gossip or slander and always allowing room for alternative views.

Stephen Greenblatt

#26. RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

William Shakespeare

#27. One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?

Thornton Wilder

#28. Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

Muhammad Ali

#29. O wonder!' he was saying; and his eyes shone, his face was brightly flushed. 'How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! ... O brave new world! O brave new world that has such people in it.

Aldous Huxley

#30. Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Plautus

#31. Gossip, slander and jealousy have caused more pain than many wars.

Heather Wolf

#32. Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Jessie J.

#33. If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

Karl Kraus

#34. Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

Habeeb Akande

#35. Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]

William Shakespeare

#36. Love? And not even some platonic cosmic love, but the carnal attraction between two mammals? Do you really think that an all-knowing super-computer or aliens who contrived to conquer the entire galaxy would be dumbfounded by a hormonal rush?' By

Yuval Noah Harari