Rumor Quotes
Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
Stephen L. Carter
Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.
William Shakespeare
Rumor is not always wrong.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil
Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
William Shakespeare
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
Syrus
The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.
Virgil
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.
Virgil
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
Horace
Rumor has winged feet like Mercury.
Henry Ward Beecher
