Gossip Behind Your Back Quotes & Sayings

When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them. — Amanda Quick

Gossip involves saying behind a person's back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person's face what you would never say behind his or her back. — R. Kent Hughes

The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile. — Elif Shafak

Talking behind someones back does not make you better. It only demonstrates how much of a coward you are for not saying it in the persons face. — Unknown

Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back. — Bob Burg

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people? — Rachel Vincent

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. — Philip Sidney

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back ... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip! — Pope Francis

What you do behind someone's back you do in front of God's eyes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face. — Courtney Milan

When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you. — Donald L. Hicks