“Avoid suspicion, for suspicion in some cases is sin. And spy not, neither backbite one another.”— 49:12 (Surah al-Hujurat), amazon.com
“ODing on the drama. Too much drama means that the relationship is going to be a big emotional rollercoaster ride, and honestly no one willingly walks into that kind of relationship.”— Ainee Nizami, idiva.com
“Shit-talkers are like black mold: They’ll infect you and you might not even know it. you don’t need that darkness in your life. Bitterness will jump from you to them.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.”— Unknown, lennonsjohn.tumblr.com
“Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Here's the thing: best friends never talk bad behind your back no matter how bad shit gets.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“You don’t talk about him behind his back. You don’t complain to your girlfriends about him in a way that you wouldn’t say to his face. You don’t post his shortcomings on social media.”— Clayton Olson, thoughtcatalog.com
“They don't speak ill of you to their friends, and you don't say anything bad about them, either (your business is nobody but each other's, anyway).”— Emma Lord, bustle.com
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“I’ve always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can’t be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Resist the urge to talk shit about people who talk shit about you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“They criticize everything, and I mean everything, about me: my behavior, my personality, my manners; every inch of me, from head to toe and back again, is the subject of gossip and debate.”— Ann Frank, amazon.com