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Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. -- William Shakespeare
Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale. -- Robert Pollok
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist. -- David Lack
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. -- William Shakespeare
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips. -- Terry Pratchett
History, a distillation of rumour. -- Thomas Carlyle
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. -- Theodor Adorno
People are telling me I might be going back to MotoGP, but a rumour is a rumour. -- Casey Stoner
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview. -- Rebecca Solnit
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. -- Terry Pratchett
Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic. -- Chris Wooding
There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal. -- Jasper Carrott
As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.' -- Nick Denton
I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy. -- Charlize Theron
I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby! -- Matthew Perry
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls. -- Jonathan Raban
Memory itself is an internal rumour. -- George Santayana
History is the distillation of rumour. -- Thomas Carlyle
Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied. -- John Mortimer
If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one. -- Billy Connolly
You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour. -- Werner Herzog
There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true. -- Angela Merkel
Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering. -- Wole Soyinka
We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over -- Andy Burnham
There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend -- Trudi Canavan
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] -- Ovid
My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true. -- Markus Zusak
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. -- Rem Koolhaas
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. -- Michael Ondaatje
RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. -- William Shakespeare
For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down. -- Charles Dickens
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour. -- George Santayana
I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection. -- Brooke Fraser
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life. -- Adrienne Rich
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour! -- W.S. Gilbert
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview." -- Rebecca Solnit
And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She." -- H. Rider Haggard
This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation. -- Johnny Depp
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request. -- Bette Davis

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