Booth Tarkington Quotes

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

I can't really comment on rumors.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

Someone's always saying something about me.

There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.

Any rumor you can think of, I've been a part of it.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

Slander is poison to the soul.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.