Top 68 Quotes About Rumour
#1. A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
Ovid
#2. There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.
Jasper Carrott
#3. This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics ... or masturbation.
Johnny Depp
#4. 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
#5. Rumour was the messenger
Of defamation, and so swift, that none
Could be the first to tell an evil tale.
Robert Pollok
#6. I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from ... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.
Brooke Fraser
#7. Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]
William Shakespeare
#8. Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
Rem Koolhaas
#9. As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
Nick Denton
#10. We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.
Rebecca Solnit
#11. Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc.
Uzoma Nnadi
#12. People are telling me I might be going back to MotoGP, but a rumour is a rumour.
Casey Stoner
#14. I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.
Kumi Naidoo
#15. Into a dozen minds entered a quick suspicion, a rumour of scandal. Could it be that behind the scenes with this couple, apparently so in love, lurked some curious antipathy? Why else this streak of fire across such a cloudless heaven?
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. The right rumour in the right ears can kill the emperor, as they say.
Trudi Canavan
#17. The first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun ...
Laurie R. King
#18. The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.
Sarah Winman
#19. The desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
Michael Ondaatje
#20. Rumour is the vehicle truth rides on.
Anonymous
#21. For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
Charles Dickens
#22. Rumour has it you've turned castration into an occupation."
"You go cutting one guy's cock off and you never hear the end of it," Nyx said.
Kameron Hurley
#23. Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.
David Lack
#24. Mark v 39' - pencilled note to journo who rushed around on the rumour cora pearl had died. (as it was too early for her to give interviews)Finally he found a bible and mark v 39 is:'the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth
Cora Pearl
#25. Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows
sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd.
William Shakespeare
#27. Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.
Ovid
#28. Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.
John Mortimer
#29. Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us.
Jessie Burton
#31. probably (as the rumour had spread through the town, reaching her ears) one of the poor maddened turn-outs,
Elizabeth Gaskell
#32. 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
#33. There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.
Angela Merkel
#34. The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.
E.B. White
#35. The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
George Santayana
#36. There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend
Trudi Canavan
#37. I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!
Matthew Perry
#39. A rumour is like a prostitute;
it will go with whoever embraces it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?
Todd Strasser
#41. I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
Charlize Theron
#42. My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.
Michael Ashcroft
#43. Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
Bette Davis
#44. RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
William Shakespeare
#45. 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
#46. My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
Markus Zusak
#47. EZE7.26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Anonymous
#49. You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
Werner Herzog
#50. Far below there was a rumour and a trouble as of great engines throbbing and labouring.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. There is a rumour that I can't draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine.
Jorn Utzon
#52. Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
If you listen to popular rumour;
From morning to night he's so joyous and bright,
And he bubbles with wit and good humour!
W.S. Gilbert
#53. 'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.
Chris Wooding
#54. And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.
H. Rider Haggard
#55. Where Insch was bald, Steel looked as if someone had sellotaped a Cairn terrier to her head. Rumour had it she was only forty-two, but she looked a lot older. Years of chain smoking had left her face looking like a holiday home for lines and wrinkles.
Stuart MacBride
#56. The CorpSeCorps always substituted rumour for action, if action would cost them anything. They believed in the bottom line.
Margaret Atwood
#57. Sometimes the rumour of an army is just as effective as the army itself.
Patrick Ness
#58. At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it.
Auberon Waugh
#59. Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up."
"These people are full of rumours. They love rumours." Paterson stood watching the bridge. "Their whole life is a rumour.
H.E. Bates
#60. We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over
Andy Burnham
#61. The wildest imaginings that dark rumour had ever suggested to the hobbits fell altogether short of the actual dread and wonder of Moria.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
Adrienne Rich
#63. If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
Billy Connolly
#64. I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
Lord Byron
#65. The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
William Hazlitt
#66. Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores.
Habeeb Akande
#67. Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
Herman Melville
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