| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told, And all who told it added something new. And all who heard it made enlargements too. |
| Alexander Pope | The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new. And all who heard it made enlargements too. |
| Bible | And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. |
| Terence Afer | There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. |
| Vergil | The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. |
| Vergil | It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. |
| Jonathan Swift | What some invent the rest enlarge. |
| Jonathan Swift | The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. |
| Ovidius Naso | Some report elsewhere whatever is told them, the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. |
| Sir Walter Scott | I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me. |
| William Shakespeare | I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight To consolate thine ear. |
| William Shakespeare | Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. |
| William Shakespeare | Rumor 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. |
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