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

Respect Stabbing Confront Backbiting

Book:The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“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!”

Life Life And Living Inspirational Attitude Backstabbing Backbiting The Nature Of People

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.”

Betrayal Flattery Mockery Backbiting

Author:Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Mind your words, for the wind is sentient.”

Air Rumours Rumors Sentience Gossiping Winds Gossips Backbiting Rumour Sentient

Book:Song of a Nature Lover

Source: Song of a Nature Lover

“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")”

“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.”

Pride Gratitude Forgiveness Praise Envy Gossip Jealous Backbiting Covet Murmur

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

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

Gossip Innuendo Hearsay Gossip Quotes Gossips Backbiting Talking About You Talking Behind Your Back I Heard It Through The Grapevine Private Chat

Author:Stewart Stafford

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

Weakness Weak Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Insult Gossip Condemnation Judge Fast Weak People Gossiping Quick Condemn Expose Backbiting Backbite Highlight

Book:Daily Drive 365

Source: Daily Drive 365

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

Religion Tales Nurture Backbiting Authoritarians Subalterns

Author:Jahanshah Safari

“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.”

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

People Love Life Hate Work Family Friends Stranger Job Backbiting

Author:Jordan Hoechlin

“Best story of me was never told.”

People Hate Family Story Bad Backbiting Bad Talking

Author:Jordan Hoechlin

“... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.”

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?”

Thinking Men Today Weak Silly Liars Bloody Cheat Vicious Traitor Cowardly Envious Grasping Hypocritical Backbiting

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.”

World Years Months Bad Years Backbiting

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.”

Ifs Men World War Ends Hate Evil Blame Every Man Shortcomings Backbiting

Book:Peyton Place

Source: Peyton Place

“Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.”

Spiritual Energy Waste Backbiting

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti