Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'
I hope Lee's scandal isn't real.
I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.
If you want truth to go around the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go around the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it.
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
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.
A lot of people believe what other people say.
I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.
I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.
Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
I'm alright with people making up stuff about me, but not when there's a woman involved.
No whispered rumors which the many spread can wholly perish.
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.
That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.
