Rumors

Rumors Quotes

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

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

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl's faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends.

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Who brings a tale takes two away.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

There is so much good in the worst of us,

And so much bad in the best of us,

That it hardly becomes any of us

To talk about the rest of us.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.