Quotes · Skopia

Every quote has been curated by hand and carefully authenticated.
Browse all 10,075 quotes or apply filters in different categories to narrow your search.

9 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Gossip✕clear

Epigram · Philosophical literature

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Pensees · 1662

★ 2.1

Almanac

Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy.

Benjamin Franklin

1739

★ 2.2

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I’m much more comfortable criticizing people behind their backs.

George Costanza

Seinfeld · 1995

★ 2.2

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy of manners · Comedy

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The School for Scandal · 1777

★ 3.6

Novel

All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World, A Dance to the Music of Time · 1955

★ 3.6

Poem · Didactic poem

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 3.7

Novel

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 3.9

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

1980

★ 5.3

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

Edgar W. Howe

1877

★ 6.0

Sourced and curated.