Terry Pratchett Quotes

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

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

I can't really comment on rumors.

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

I can never really comment on rumours.

Aren't rumors great. Anyone can start them. They're a wonderful way to put out feelers. It's like getting the benefits of a publicist without paying one.

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

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

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

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

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

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

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

A rumor is just a rumor.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

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.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth

Rumor is not always wrong

The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...

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

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.