A Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Ivy Compton-Burnett
English - Novelist
June 5, 1884 - August 27, 1969

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

Kathy Griffin

One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.

Ray Dalio

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

Malcolm X

None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access.

Neil Gaiman

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

Melody Carlson

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.

Marilyn Manson

I never talk about me mates behind their backs, you know. I might have a laugh, but whatever I say about them I'll certainly say it to their faces.

Shaun Ryder

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Honore de Balzac

None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter

Noel Gallagher

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Anna Brownell Jameson

I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs.

Ariana Madix

None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford it. They all want subsidies. None of the people that gave us Obamacare have any desire to actually go to HealthCare.gov and sign up. That's for you and me to have to do.

Rush Limbaugh

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.

Meghan Markle

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton

Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.

Chang-Rae Lee

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