Eleanor Robson Belmont Quotes

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

The nature of rumor is known to all.

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.

The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

After 2014, a number of my friends from Delhi rang up very concerned because they thought I was in bad health. But my health has always been good, and I told them so. They told me that this is what Baijayant Panda was spreading. This was a shock.

There's a perception of me out there that my effort is not there, but that's just he said, she said. A person says something, everyone believes it. But they're not there in the early mornings or when I work out.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

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

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

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

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

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

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

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer

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

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

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

Rumors are spread by jealous people

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

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Oon ere it herde, at tother out it went.