Quotes About Rumors

One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

the best way to ensure that a message gets communicated throughout an organization is to spread rumors about it.

Think of the firearms makers you wouldn't buy from, based on what you've "heard" about their product.

The absence of verifiable news provokes rumors

Everyone has come to celebrate her return. They will go home and talk about it forever, unto the next generation. But they will not come here and ask about her welfare.

Heard you killed 'em later on. In the woods.

Bad news always travels faster than good.

Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

They had begun just lately—rumors about the Loftises, rumors about "another woman," whisperings which disturbed him not so much because they concerned the Loftises—whom he didn't know too well, in any case—but because they upset his notions about the prevalence of human decency.

Those who listen at closed doors rarely hear good of themselves," his mother had warned him as an adolescent.

Lucius had told him word was out that he was dead. Han decided that being dead made travel much easier.

The eminent virtue of calumny is that it produces a vacuum around you without your having to raise a finger.

Gossip is the human condition. It's like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can't be contained.

Rumors concerning his life on the island established his reputation as an adventurer with a taste for the exotic, which was an asset in his line of business.

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.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Do you know why they say, 'There's no smoke without fire?' It's not just to give encouragement to people who like fires.

que el rey les otorgará la merced de muerte por el hacha, que no aumentará su deshonra; aunque entre los jurados se murmura que a Smeaton se le ahorcará porque, al ser hombre de bajo nacimiento, no hay ningún honor que proteger.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.

Nothing favourable comes from speculation.

I'm supposed to stay away from you." He grinned at that. "Says who?" She ignored the question. "And while I'm certain that at least half the rumors about you couldn't possibly be true—" "They are," Gideon said without a trace of shame. "You're a rake, then." "The worst kind.

Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.

There's all sorts of rumors... there's so many variables there. And I've learned with AC/DC also not to believe the rumors, because even fans fake things.