rumor spreading Quotes

The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person's madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news.

Honestly, when I first heard that there were rumors out there about me being gay, I thought, 'Wow, someone must really hate me.' There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I just couldn't understand why someone would make up lies like that.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.

I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.