rumor

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
b8b8363	People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.	libel neighbor people prejudice reputation rumor slander truth	George Eliot
8806375	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.	gossip libel public-opinion reputation rumor slander wagging-tongues	William Shakespeare
0da4106	"Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, ]"	gossip libel public-opinion reputation rumor slander tongues wagging-tongues	William Shakespeare
2d656d1	"You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much"	gossip gossips hearsay heresay mary-collingwood reputation rumor rumors	Lewis Carroll
ef83c99	Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.	gospel-truth hearsay katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits romance rumor rumors truth young-adult	Katie McGarry
96a1823	Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said.	jeffrey-eugenides rumor secondhand-account the-virgin-suicides	Jeffrey Eugenides

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

libel neighbor people prejudice reputation rumor slander truth

George Eliot

8806375

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.

gossip libel public-opinion reputation rumor slander wagging-tongues

William Shakespeare

0da4106

"Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, ]"

gossip libel public-opinion reputation rumor slander tongues wagging-tongues

William Shakespeare

2d656d1

"You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much"

gossip gossips hearsay heresay mary-collingwood reputation rumor rumors

Lewis Carroll

ef83c99

Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

gospel-truth hearsay katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits romance rumor rumors truth young-adult

Katie McGarry

96a1823

Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said.

jeffrey-eugenides rumor secondhand-account the-virgin-suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides