Rumours Spread Quotes & Sayings

The four had rented a riverside cottage and lived together there as two couples. Their vice was public, official and perfectly obvious to all. It was referred to quite naturally as something entirely normal. There were rumours about jealous scenes that took place there and about the various actresses and other famous women who frequented the little cottage near the water's edge. One neighbour, scandalized by the goings-on, alerted the police at one stage and an inspector accompanied by one of his men came to make enquiries. It was a delicate mission: there was nothing the women could be prosecuted for, least of all prostitution. The inspector was deeply puzzled and could not understand what these alleged misdemeanours could possibly be. He asked a whole lot of pointless questions, compiled a lengthy report and dismissed the charges out of hand. The joke spread as far as Saint-Germain. — Guy De Maupassant

Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores. — Habeeb Akande

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them? — Amanda Lear

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them. — Amit Kalantri

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population. — Paul Scott

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. — Hesiod

Rumours of Damen's enslavement in Vere had spread like fire through the camp. To see the Veretian Prince wear the gold cuff of a palace bed slave in turn was shocking, intimate, a symbol of Damen's ownership. Damen — C.S. Pacat