"Men will seem to see new destructions in the sky. The flames that fall from it will seem to rise in it and to fly from it with terror. They will hear every kind of animals speak in human language. They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness. O! marvel of the human race! What madness has led you thus! You will speak with animals of every species and they with you in human speech. You will see yourself fall from great heights without any harm and torrents will accompany you, and will mingle with their rapid course."

"You speak with me and I speak with you."

"A heart never created hatred; speech created hatred."

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."

"I would be loath to cast away my speech, for besides that it is excellently well penn'd, I have taken great pains to con it."

"Your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable."

"Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself."

"She speaks poniards, and every word stabs."

"Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again."

"My soul has rest, sweet sigh! alone in thee."

"Sighs Which perfect Joy, perplexed for utterance, Stole from her sister Sorrow."

"Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeede true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care."

"Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy."

"To sigh, yet feel no pain."

"Implores the passing tribute of a sigh."

"Sighed and wept and said no more."

"What some invent the rest enlarge."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Rumors flew like bats at dusk."

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

"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."

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

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

"Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores."

"Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum Ferrea vox."

"Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem."

"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."

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

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

"Haud semper erret fama; aliquando et elegit."

"Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet."

"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat."

"I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me."

"Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself."

"'Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit."