Rumour Quotes - page 2

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 (actor))
Thus each by his fears adds strength to rumour, and all dread the unconfirmed dangers invented by themselves. View quote
Lucan
Then empty rumour to well-grounded fear gave strength. View quote
Lucan
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys. View quote
Ben Jonson
Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys. View quote
Ben Jonson
Now I have no idea how this has come about - probably a rumour spread by my enemies - but apparently there's a general belief among some sections of the surf community that I am a bit of a drop-in artist. View quote
Tom Carroll
It first was a rumour dismissed as a lie but then came the evidence none could deny: a double page spread in the Sunday Express - The Russians are running the DHSS! View quote
Attila the Stockbroker
Quickly, with rapid steps, too credulous, The limit which a woman sets to trust Advances evermore; And with swift doom of death A rumour spread by woman perishes. View quote
Aeschylus
Rumour her tidings, whether bad or good, Has always tended to exaggerate. View quote
Ludovico Ariosto
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. View quote
Charles Dickens
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. (William Shakespeare)
Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, ]. View quote
William Shakespeare
It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
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. View quote
Charlize Theron
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A referendum is little more than a "rumour of choice." View quote
John Ralston Saul
There is no doubt about Martin Luther's marriage, but the rumour about his wife's early confinement is false; she is said however to be pregnant now. If there is truth in the popular legend, that Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun (which is the story these people keep putting about), how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already! View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
It has already been well-documented how false reports were spread about a pregnant Muslim woman whose stomach was allegedly ripped open, her foetus wrenched out with a sword, and set on fire. BBC lent credibility tothis rumour in its report of March 6, 2002. Harsh Mander repeated the same story in a tear-jerking article published on March 20, 2002, in The Times of India. The Tehelka website lent further colour and credence to it by writing that a woman named Saira Banu had claimed that the victim of that gruesome incident was her sister-in-law. View quote
Madhu Kishwar