Rumor Quotes
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. - William Shakespeare
Every rumour is believed against the unfortunate. - Publius
Trying to squash a rumour is like trying to un-ring a bell. - Shana Alexander
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. - Horace
The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new. And all who heard it made enlargements too. - Alexander Pope
Rumour travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. - Will Rogers
Rumour: A favourite weapon of the assassins of character. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying. (on being told that her death was rumoured) - Bette Davis
Rumour grows as it goes. - Virgil
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. - Jewish Proverb
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. - Chinese Proverb
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. - Alice Duer Miller
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. - Edgar Watson Howe
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. - Author Unknown
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. - Wendell Phillips
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. - Ouida
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. - Author Unknown
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. - Douglas Adams
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. - Barbara Walters
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. - Frank A. Clark
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. - Dolley Madison
I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder. - Robert Brault
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. - Errol Flynn
To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl's faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends. - Edwin Lillie Miller
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. - Shana Alexander
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. - F.H. Bradley
Who brings a tale takes two away. - Irish Proverb
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. - John Tudor
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. - Liz Smith
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. - Benjamin Franklin
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.- Edward Wallis Hoch
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared. - Erica Jong
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. - Alexis de Tocqueville
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. - Napoleon I, Maxims
The biggest liar in the world is They Say. - Douglas Malloch
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. - Winston Churchill