Andris Nelsons Quotes

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

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.

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

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

Gossip is conversation about people.

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

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

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 widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

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.

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

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

… poison tongues …

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

Gossip is poison.