Quotes About Rumor

Rumor grows as it goes.

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

Folk will tell ye that owls havena got an arsehole, so they canna pass the things they eat—like mice, aye? So the bones and the hairs and such are all made up into a ball, and the owl vomits them out, not bein' able to get rid of them out the other end.

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Il tuo destino ha fatto molto scalpore a Costanza. Non vi era persona alla quale io chiedessi che non sapesse darmi una risposta.

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

É clássico aquilo que persiste como rumor mesmo onde predomina a atualidade mais incompatível.

Jah – or at least I know about him. My father knew him well. They fought together at the battle of Zacatecas, the fiercest battle of the war. There is a rumor that my father fell because El Pantera abandoned him at the wrong time. My father, too, was a great warrior.

said Mr. Granite. "Did you hear about the fire at the circus?" "No," we all shouted.

Some lady at a bridge party somewhere started the rumor that to test the honesty of a cleaning woman you leave little rosebud ashtrays around with loose change in them, here and there. My solution to this is to always add a few pennies, even a dime.

women do steal. Not the things the people we work for are so nervous about. It is the superfluity that finally gets to you. We don't want the change in the little ashtrays. Some lady at a bridge party somewhere started the rumor that to test the honesty of a cleaning woman you leave little rosebud ashtrays around with loose change in them,

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Insight roams the sea of the unconscious like the Loch Ness monster, a rumor whose wake occasionally becomes visible, but even then it's mystifying and scarcely believed.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.

Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.

Gossip said he was a royal bastard.

ABOUT a week after the bomb dropped, a vague, incomprehensible rumor reached Hiroshima—that the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.

it struck him as a brilliant accusation to make of anyone who was slightly (or hugely) different. It was the best rumor to start about anyone because it could never be proved or disproved.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.