Rumours Quotes

• I've learned to not care. There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

  Kim Kardashian

  Ridiculous

  "Kim Kardashian: 'I want to be more of a private person'" by Jo Usmar, www.mirror.co.uk. April 04, 2012.

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• Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

  Paul Scott

  Lying, Heart, People

  Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion”, p.189, University of Chicago Press

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  It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

  Dolley Madison

  People, Gossip, Rumor

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• trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

  Shana Alexander

  Squash, Gossip, Rumor

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• Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Long, Gossip

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

  George Eliot

  Dirty, Gossip, Rumor

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13

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• I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?

  Amanda Lear

  Hate, Inspiration, Spread

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• Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

  William Shakespeare

  Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

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• My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.

  Markus Zusak

  Voice, Not Sure, Ifs

  Markus Zusak (2015). “I Am the Messenger”, p.133, Random House

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• 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

  Funny, True Friend, Lying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”

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• The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Knowledge, People, Gossip

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

  Joseph Conrad

  Reality, Gossip, Claims

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• Rumour 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

  Play, Rumor, Monsters

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

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• Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

  William Shakespeare

  Echoes, Voice, Numbers

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

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• Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

  Horace

  Gossip, Ears, Inquisitive

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• The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

  Douglas Malloch

  Liars, Lying, Gossip

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• No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Keeping Secrets, People

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.50, Routledge

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• Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Envy, Gossip

  Fear of Flying ch. 6 (1973)

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• Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.

  Mariah Carey

  Awards, Hair, Fans

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• Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Mean, Advice

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• When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Noise, Abundance

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.9

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• Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dog, Father, Taken

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.8, Vintage

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• Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

  Perry Como

  Careers, Cameras, Video

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• There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Alzheimer's, Keys

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 29, 2016

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• Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that.

  Harry Styles

  People, Complaining, Goes On

  "This One Direction interview got us death threats". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 24, 2015.

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