Malicious Talk Quotes

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

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

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

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

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

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.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

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 bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

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

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

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

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

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

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.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.