Rumors

"There’s a stupid rumor. The most ridiculous rumor I think I’ve ever had about me. It’s crazy. To think I would be that vain – I respect mothers and women so much and to be able to experience bringing a child into this world, if you’re lucky and fortunate enough to experience that, I would never, ever take that for granted. It’s the most powerful thing you can do. Especially after losing a child, the pain and trauma from that just makes it mean so much more to get an opportunity to bring life into the world. It seems like people should have boundaries."

"Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available."

"In all cases the best antidote to rumour is the truth, however painful."

"Springfield McKenna didn’t place much faith in rumors. She’d traded in them far too long to lend credence to someone else’s social munitions."

"I'm tired of rumors starting, I'm sick of being followed. I'm tired of people lying, saying what they want about me."

"Rumors flew like bats at dusk."

"I will be gone: That pitiful rumour may report my flight, To consolate thine ear."

"Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it."

"Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd."

"It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, it's just that I'm too damned big to pay attention to 'em."

"Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores."

"Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor."

"Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt."

"The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too."

"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me."

"The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies."

"What some invent the rest enlarge."

"Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet."

"Haud semper erret fama; aliquando et elegit."

"There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly."

"Tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not."

"Extemplo Libyæ magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit. * * * * * * Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumæ Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linguæ, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures."

"Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem."

"Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum Ferrea vox."