Ogden Nash Quotes

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.

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

He that praiseth publickly will slander privately.

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

Rumors are spread by jealous people

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

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

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

Some people will always gossip.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

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 most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

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.

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.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

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

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.