Backbiting Quotes

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.

The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.

Thomm Quackenbush

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

Richelle E. Goodrich

When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you...

Assegid Habtewold

Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.

Ezra Taft Benson

When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack. A painstaking reshuffle, however, may brand a new choice of life and create energy for positive thinking, whereas remaining bogged down in dispiriting situations and staying clogged up with immaterial hassle may only spawn forlorn deadlocks.. ("Mes cliques et mes claques")

Erik Pevernagie