Gossip Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate…

— Anonymous

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

— Gelett Burgess

“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly…

— Donna Goddard

“Fear of women is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Nkosiyazi Shange

Gossip is more popular than literature.

— Hugh Leonard

“Gossip is only meant to weaken your powers because people are afraid of anything but the most common and familiar.”

— Linda Lafferty

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

— Ovid

“It is only when he speaks German, as now, that he allows himself to lament the enslavement of the world's downtrodden classes. "We cannot…

— John Le Carre

A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much

— Bible

“Let's face it: Today silly women mired in the sophistries and seductions of the world, and haughty women obsessed with themselves, abound. Regrettably, many…

— Sheri L. Dew