Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Some people will always gossip.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

Gossip is poison.

… poison tongues …

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

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.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

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

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

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.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

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

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

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

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.

He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Slander is poison to the soul.

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.

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

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

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.