Communication Quote by Victor Hugo

“No one pries as effectively into other people’s business as those whose business it most definitely is not… What for? For nothing. For the…

— Victor Hugo

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

— Nancy Hale

“One who provokes a person by speaking has only called to the surface the passion that was already there. The person who becomes disturbed…

— Dee Pennock

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

— Ovid

“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

“Beware of an argument with an adversary who is a quibbler of a perverse nature, for [undesirable] character creeps into one stealthily; habits are…

— Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of…

— Marvin J. Ashton

“There is nothing so dangerous for any one who has something to hide as conversation!”

— Agatha Christie

Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“To consort with the crowd is harmful; there is no person who does not make some vice attractive to us, or stamp it upon…

— Seneca

“What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.”

— Asne Seierstad

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

— Primo Levi