Quotes About Rumors

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.

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

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

It was widely believed that a small, bald man in a grubby room in Moscow started all rumors to wreak havoc on our Western market-based economy.

And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.

Norfolk has a long-standing reputation for inbreeding. As my son Sam used to say: "Norfolk: too many people, not enough surnames." I am not for a moment suggesting that the rumors are entirely true, but I will say that when the police do DNA checks after crimes they sometimes have to arrest as many as twelve thousand people.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.