Spreading Rumors Quotes

• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

  Philip Sidney

  Gossip, Rumor, Behind Your Back

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• There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, True Friend, Lying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”

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• And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

  Alexander Pope

  Gossip, Rumor, Enlargement

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.130

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• I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, Dog, Art

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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  It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

  Dolley Madison

  People, Gossip, Rumor

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• Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

  Mark Frost

  Rumor, Internet, Truth Is

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2013

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• I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

  Ali MacGraw

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.

  John Newton

  Art, Hands, Giving

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• What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking or spreading rumors in the media; but saying look, we're going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that's what we do.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Media, Rumor

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

  Bassem Youssef

  Insulting, Islam, Rumor

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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