Paul Scott Quotes

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

By evil report and by good report.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

I don't really worry too much about what people say. I guess it's good that people talk about me.

A lot of things have been said about me. People are going to talk, and that's a good thing; I want people to talk.

What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.

Everybody gets talked about. Jesus Christ got talked about. It's just what happens. It's just part of it. And if people aren't talking, it's like, who are you? So I really let the people talk.

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

I hope Lee's scandal isn't real.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.