Earl Wilson Quotes

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.

Some people will always gossip.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

… poison tongues …

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

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

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.

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.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Gossip is poison.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.