Top 30 Gossip And Rumor Quotes
#1. And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
Kathleen O'Dell
#2. Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.
Jack Levin
#3. RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
William Shakespeare
#4. People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.
Anthony Liccione
#5. The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.
James C. Scott
#7. My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#8. Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
Octave Feuillet
#10. Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.
Suzy Kassem
#11. Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Shana Alexander
#12. he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.
Christopher Hitchens
#13. Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
Shana Alexander
#14. Gossip? Me? How would I know about such things?" "Don't think of it as gossip. Think of it as rumor and innuendo.
Chet Williamson
#16. Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
Margot Asquith
#17. People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
Dennis E. Adonis
#18. I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
Learned Hand
#20. Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]
William Shakespeare
#21. If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#22. Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
Hesiod
#23. It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.
Joshua Ferris
#24. There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#25. Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Will Rogers
#26. 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
#28. Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.
Andre Norton
#29. Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
Stephen L. Carter
#30. The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world.
James C. Scott
