Rumor Mill Quotes

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

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

It's hard to surprise people with everything leaking on the Internet.

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

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

This rumour that the BJP is behind me has been going on for a while, but the truth is the only person behind me is God - and, of course, the people of Tamil Nadu.

Anyone who is gossiping is just insecure about that person they're gossiping about.

Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

I try not to worry about nothing I can't control. I can't control rumors.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.

There's a rumor that President George Bush had a nose job, that he had some kind of plastic surgery, that he actually had a nose job. If this is true, that's the first new job he's created since taking office.

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.