Pauline Phillips Quotes

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.

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.

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.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

… poison tongues …

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

If politicians throwing mud begin to slip in it, perhaps they will head for higher ground.

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.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

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.

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.

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

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.