Rumor Quotes

Rumor is the food of gossip.

Antoine Bret

False rumors die of their own stench.

Paul Chatfield

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Rumors generally grow deformed as they travel.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Rumors are like ripples in a cornfield. They are ephemeral, but they do indicate which way the wind is blowing.

SUSAN J. PALMER

Rumors are seen as crimes committed by third parties. They are perfect crimes and leave not the slightest trace and require no weapons whatsoever--the defense is left without a leg to stand on.

JEAN-NOEL KAPFERER

A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.

Beryl Pfizer

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

Horace

Rumors are rumors because they are not true!

Unknown

What some invent, the rest enlarge.

Jonathan Swift

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome, Being urged at a time unreasonable.

William Shakespeare

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

"They say so" is half a lie.

Thomas Fuller

The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.

Jonathan Swift

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

Virgil

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Syrus

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Tell tales out of school.