Top 194 Rumor Quotes & Sayings

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

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

I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

History: A distillation of rumor.

I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

I heard this rumor that al Qaeda is merging with Hamas. Yeah, I got that tip from Martha Stewart.

There's a difference between a rumor and a lie.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn’t.

A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor.

Rumor is not always wrong

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.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

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

Any rumor you can think of, I've been a part of it.

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

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

My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.

The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

A rumor is just a rumor.

If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman.

There's this big rumor that I was a backup dancer when I was 11. Not true!

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

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

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

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

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.