Quotes About Rumors

People who spread rumors...like lies better than they like the truth. Don't trust anyone who spreads rumors.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. Ferris

There are rumors about the depraved and perverted practices of the pulchritudinous protestant puritan plutocratic penis-people priesthood, of shadowy bacchanalian polyamorous practices. ... I suspect, to be blunt, someone was blackmailing him.

There are rumors of rats down here as big as German shepherds, the people not the dogs.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.

I've heard this stuff about a kicker 'losing his leg' ever since I was a rookie, and I can tell you that there is nothing to it. Every time a field goal kicker misses a few, the word gets around that he's lost his leg, meaning his kicking strength.

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

told of Henry's reputed sexual endowments, Burton

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

I came to New York for a reason. I've been with you all my life, almost to a fault. I wanted to come here and take on the pressures of playing in New York. So one thing I would tell my fans: If you haven't heard it from me, then it ain't true.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days

Tinkie's on the list." "That's ridiculous. She and Enzo were only flirting." "And Oscar showed his ass and then was seen floundering in the bayou where a blow-up sex doll, complete with a death threat, later showed up in front of an entire town."... "Even though they don't have a body, Pret is thinking Enzo's disappearance may prove to be a homicide.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Terrible events produce outrage, and when people are outraged, they are all the more likely to accept rumors that justify their emotional states, and also to attribute those events to intentional action.

Some rumors simultaneously relieve "a primary emotional urge" and offer an explanation, to those who accept them, of why they feel as they do; the rumor "rationalizes while it relieves.

Dark wings, dark words.

Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore in King's Landing renowned for coupling with dogs. His own sweet sister had told him of the last, even offering to find him a bitch in heat if he cared to try it out. When he asked politely if she were referring to herself, Cersei had thrown a cup of wine in his face.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

Seventeen, and beautiful, and already a legend. Half the girls in the Seven Kingdom want to bed him, and all the boys want to be him.

Are you?" she asked mildly. "It's said that you have uncles, brothers, a sister." "My brothers are long dead, and my sister … well, they say Asha's favorite gown is a chainmail hauberk that hangs down past her knees, with boiled leather smallclothes