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Quotes About Rumor

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
~ Douglas Jerrold
The Reverend grinned, his fangs flashing. You know, I've heard this rumor… about a member of the Brotherhood who's celibate. Yeah, go figure, a warrior who abstains. And I've heard a few other things about this male. He's down to one leg. Has a scarred sociopath for a twin. You wouldn't by any chance know of such a Brother? Phury shook his head. Nope.
~ J.R. Ward
Trez went over and lifted the lid. After a deep inhale, he glanced over with a smile. "My brother is a helluva cook." Sure was, John thought. Although with Shadows you always had to wonder what the protein was. Rumor had it they liked to eat their enemies. The
~ J.R. Ward
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
~ Errol Flynn
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
~ Syrus
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
~ Tacitus
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Beneath all the unintelligent commentary about pop culture and what everyone had for dinner, the Twitterverse was a turbulent sea of vicious accusation, unsubstantiated rumor, and outright lies. The false facelessness of it gave people the freedom to strike out in ways they might never have dared in person. Even the meek became assassins on Twitter, drunk on the counterfeit confidence of imagined anonymity.
~ Tami Hoag
Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.
~ Daisy Shah
There's a myth on the Internet that I'm afraid of heights. I don't know where that came from, but it isn 't true.
~ Nicholas Hammond
he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.
~ Christopher Hitchens
esiste una società segreta con ramificazioni in tutto il mondo, che complotta per diffondere la voce che esiste un complotto universale.
~ Umberto Eco
Your boy has ruined my daughter, Tony. She's expecting." Elsa saw the way Mrs. Martinelli's face changed at that, how the look in her eyes went from kind to suspicious. An appraising, judging look in which Elsa was condemned as either a liar or a loose woman or both
~ Kristin Hannah
Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary, and unanimous. If the sight of the warriors wasn't enough to stoke their curiosity, there was rumor of a 'rare opportunity'.
~ Laini Taylor
I'll be back quick as a rumor.
~ Geralyn Dawson
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
~ Giuliana Rancic
A gossip always gives you the benefit of the dirt.
~ Sam Cowling
My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.
~ Kreayshawn
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
~ Bobby Ray Inman
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
~ Lucan
The nature of rumor is known to all.
~ Tertullian
Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.
~ Theodore Roscoe
History a distillation of rumor.
~ Thomas Carlyle