Meghan Markle Quotes

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

He that praiseth publickly will slander privately.

Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.

Nobody likes to feel like they are being torn apart behind their back.

Some people will always gossip.

I keep myself away from people who talk badly about others.

People are going to talk bad about you no matter who you are.

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

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.