Backbiting Quotes

“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, The Infinity Sign

“Backbiting is the attempt of one who is incapable of doing better himself.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

“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

“Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“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

“Many times, you are the single most significant and glorious thing that has ever happened in the lives of some people; they sit around and talk about you over and over again throughout the years while you are out there living your life, every step that you take and every kiss that you make having absolutely nothing to do with them, at all!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.”
― Habeeb Akande

“The mission or ministry of backbiters is to bite you at the back. When they backbite you, move forward. If you turn back to talk back or fight them, you descend to their low class.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“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, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“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

“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Do you know that some people hate you because somebody lied to them about you.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“You could fill three lifetimes with the things people say about you when you're not there.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

“Mind your words, for the wind is sentient.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Enemies are always born in your bloodlines. When in doubt always turn your head into your bloodlines. You will definitely find a solution to your problem!”
― Fahad Basheer

“People who talk behind you, always left behind you!”
― sophieya

“The faith of a religious hypocrite can only be increased through backbiting!”
― Fahad Basheer

“An angry countenance is the best defense against people backbiting while in your presence.”
― Andrew B. Ray

“Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.”
― Jahanshah Safari

“Best story of me was never told.”
― Jordan Hoechlin