Quotes about Gossip

Satan must grin wickedly when he sees our gossip disguised as a prayer request or a need to get a third person's opinion. It just adds fuel to Satan's fire as the problem becomes widespread and relationships are damaged.

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.

They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.

Rumors aren't worth the sand we walk on.

It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

Crime was up, especially among the youth; simple, common trust in one's neighbor was diminishing; never had the town been so full of rumors, scandals, and malicious gossip. In the shadow of fear and suspicion, life here was gradually losing its joy and simplicity, and no one seemed to know why or how.