Hannah Kent Quotes

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.

Someone's always saying something about me.

As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Of course, there are hurtful moments of the malice and rumors - the worst are not the ones that affect you, but ones that affect other family members. But you have to distance yourself from it, otherwise you would be unhappy.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.