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Rumor Quotes - Page 5

It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Sir Walter Scott, “The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: Canto Ii.”

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

"An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

"Hogan War Heats Up: Linda Rejected From Brooke's 21st Birthday" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2009.