Quotes about Rumors

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that a prophet of old has arisen.”

Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

I suppose in about fortnight we shall be told that he has been seen in San Francisco. It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord

Once I did bad and that I heard ever, twice I did good, but that I heard never.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

Find some disgruntled member, whisper a lie in his ear and he will wreak havoc in your church.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it.