Rumours Quotes

“People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?'

'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“Some of the things he’s said over the past few days are starting to make sense, and I begin to feel more and more like the people I despise. He told me outright that he would answer anything if I just asked, yet I chose to believe the rumours about him instead. No wonder he was so irritated with me. I was treating him just like everyone else treats me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print”
― John Clare

“Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you go around ruining the reputation of others. Because what goes around comes around for sure.”
― Rachitha Cabral

“Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.”
― Dennis Adonis

“people who believed the world to be an undignified,
inglorious place, and who spent their evenings and nights
talking on and on about the mistakes others had made. They were
people whom solitude had made into the judges of the world,
whose verdicts were scattered to the four winds for whoever cared
to listen”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“I don´t listen to hoax or rumours,
but I like a good sense of humour.
If you are wrong, be wise, apologize. Otherwise, be kind and rewind.
Gone with the wind...”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up."
"These people are full of rumours. They love rumours." Paterson stood watching the bridge. "Their whole life is a rumour.”
― H.E. Bates

“What did the soup say to the tea plate?
"You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes