Frank A. Clark Quotes

I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

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

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

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.

… poison tongues …

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

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Some people will always gossip.

Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs.

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

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

Slander is poison to the soul.

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

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.

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

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.

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.