Quotes About Scuttlebutt

A rumor is just a rumor.

People gossip even when they don't care,

Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

I had discovered the gossip test—what you are really interested in is what you gossip about.

Rumor grows as it goes.

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