Shana Alexander Quotes

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.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

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

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.

Never believe anything until it has officially been denied.

Our credibility had gotten so bad we couldn't even believe our own leaks.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

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

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

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

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.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

I found it unworthy of publication because it is not supported by any scientific or historic facts. Moreover, as a matter of principle, it's not right to exchange silly and false information about the use of human blood in the food of other humans whoever they may be because such a thing doesn't exist in the world at all.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

I don't believe in the cult of personality, having my portrait hung all over the place like Ronald Reagan or Mao Tse-tung.

This is not politics. This is garbage. And we are disgusted by it. To those who are departed who sought in some, quote, clever, unquote way, to tarnish the reputation of Tom Foley, I say, good riddance.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

No whispered rumors which the many spread can wholly perish.

There’s nothing worse in politics than releasing facts one at a time.

My clothes, my stockings, my wigs were a matter of public discussion …. Columnists asked me about anything and everything—except my job. Women's magazines and women's pages featuring articles about me—sometimes without bothering to interview me. Cartoonist delight in sketching me and my clothes and swelling girth. and always the whispers and speculation about my sex life—how much, and with whom.