George S. Patton Quotes

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

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

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

There are new rumors about me every day.

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

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work

That's garbage. Why can't they catch me in a sex scandal. I could use some good publicity.

The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

I don't like the media attention.

It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and - my personal favorite - that I deny the Trinity.

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

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?

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

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