William Shakespeare Quotes

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

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.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.

I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.

Social media can blow anything out of proportion.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

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

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

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.

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?