John Irving Quotes

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor.

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

The nature of rumor is known to all.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

Rumor is not always wrong

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

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

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.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.

There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.

Rumours die out faster than they are born, and I'm prepared for them.