Quotes About Hearsay

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

Rumor flies.

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

1 )Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. 2)A classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off.

I give only one example of the falsity of gossip and hearsay, and I urge my readers to beware of incredible tales, however widely they might be believed and instead to believe the unvarnished truth.

There is no way to write a biography of Shostakovich without relying on hearsay and relaying the memories of people who have many private reasons to fabricate, mislead, and revise.

So, how did you manage to get the story about Bannick and Eileen? It's all hearsay and third-hand and urban legend, all remembered and told by a bunch of drunk rich kids. Right?" "For the most part, yes.

Gossip said he was a royal bastard.

You hadn't heard 'Teaser Augustus'?" the Princesse d'Épinay would ask. "But of course," the Marquise de Bavano would reply with a blush, "the Princesse de Sarsina-La Rochefoucauld told me about it, but not in quite the same terms. But it must have been so much more interesting to hear it repeated like that in the company of my cousin," she added, as though she had been speaking of a song accompanied by the composer himself.

You can't believe everything you hear, but it's fun to repeat it anyway.

Spreading rumours is our national past time

The Creator placed you in this world for a purpose and that purpose is to learn from experience and not relying too much upon the hearsays.