Margaret Deland Quotes

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

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.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

Some people will always gossip.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

There are new rumors about me every day.

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

I am constantly the butt of jokes.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

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

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.