William Shakespeare Quotes About Rumors

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Rumor, Monsters

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

• On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

  William Shakespeare

  Rumor, Tongue, Slander

• Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

  William Shakespeare

  Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

• I heard a bustling rumor like a fray,
  And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Rumor

• Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

  William Shakespeare

  Echoes, Voice, Numbers

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

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