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“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Who gossips with you will gossip of you”
Irish Sayings Quotes |
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“Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Rogers Quotes |
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“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“History is merely gossip”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought not.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 13)
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“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 9)
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“Whoever keeps an open ear
For tattlers will be sure to hear
The trumpet of contention.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Friendship (st. 17)
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“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes
of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of
the smoker.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
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“Tell tales out of school.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit
next to me.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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“He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?”
John Milton Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,350)
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“You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Art of Love (III, 1, 21)
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“But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
And in the last repeating troublesome,
Being urged at a time unreasonable.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pembroke at IV, ii)
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“Foul whisp'rings are abroad.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Doctor of Physic at V, i)
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“(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the
death of a third husband.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Salerio & Solanio at III, i)
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“I heard the little bird say so.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Letter to Stella
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“Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift,
increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.
[Lat., Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum,
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes Source: The Aeneid (IV, 174)
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“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked
about, and that is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde) Quotes Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes |
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