Quotes About Rumors

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The Joyces down the lane are always in trouble because the men can't keep their trousers buttoned and the women are just as bad

Pennsylvania." The boys nodded appreciatively, as if Abby had said Emily was from Naughty Dirty Sex Land

Sometimes people talk behind friends' backs. That's life.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

People don't talk much now about the Spanish influenza.... People came to church wearing masks, if they came at all. They'd sit as far from each other as they could. There was talk that Germans has caused it with some sort of secret weapon, and I think people wanted to believe that, because it saved them from reflecting on what other meaning it might have.

Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still banging Charles after all these years — Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.

Parler derrière le dos des autres est le ventilateur du couer.

Rumors spread of possible salt substitutes. In 1862, there was a rumor of a substitute for curing bacon and beef. A newspaper in Alabama reported that pyroligneous acid, a vinegar made from hard wood, could preserve meat.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

But he never hears of anything. If two men fought a duel in his own dining-room he would be the last man in London to know it.

it was even said that Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria, had bitten the jugular of a priest;

Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better.

Gossip, I have discovered, is seldom spread about people who find happiness or contentment.

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

it is really unbelievably difficult to get accurate information about a haunted house;

go." "In effect, she did. I really think the poor girl was hated to death; she hanged herself, by the way. Gossip says she hanged herself

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else. After

Folks say he's up to his neck in debts. He doesn't even own the hair on his head.

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.