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“We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores.”
― Habeeb Akande

“Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Being rich and powerful does that to you. You don’t get a chance to offer any clarification because people dare not ask you a thing. They would prefer to hear someone else’s half truth, then make up the other half, and then whisper a twisted version in someone else’s ear. The whole matter gets distorted in no time, so much so, that it no longer resembles the actual facts.”
― Neena H. Brar, Tied to Deceit

“Rumour has a hundred mouths.”
― Paul Verlaine, Confessions

“Rumours are always started for a reason, but that doesn’t always mean the reason is truth.”
― Broms The Poet, Feast

“But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?”
― Todd Strasser, Wish You Were Dead

“Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!”
― L.P. Hartley, The Hireling

“Mind your words, for the wind is sentient.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There were rumours and counter­rumours. There were rumours that might have been true, and truths that ought to have been just rumours.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Both of us were always in a fight,
He won over my friends,
I won in life.
He always wanted to marry this girl,
I ended up calling her my wife.”
― Vatsal Gourisaria, The Rumor

“É clássico aquilo que persiste como rumor mesmo onde predomina a atualidade mais incompatível.”
― Italo Calvino

“They won't live their lives...
They see things they don't wanna see
Yet they won't shut their eyes
'Coz they ain't willing to shut their mouths
They wanna make stories with others lives
Unlucky for some, cause they don't like what they see
they want more, so MORE they make it be
stories of theirs are consumed enough
So they make up others', so they can seem though ...

Rumour here, Rumour there
they won't stop 'til someone dares
To stand up and reply
to all the bullshits one doesn't rely.
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― Flonja Akshija

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― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Gossip is the human condition. It’s like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can’t be contained.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“Rumour is,
everybody could be perfect,
but in the end of the day,
the fact is,
that character is the only certificate.”
― Musafir Asmani

“She is a girl made of rumours and gossip and other people's desires. They swirl around her until they lose all meaning. Until there is just an outline left. But she is more than that. Ivy Avile is more than just her outline. Somehow I know this.”
― Amy Reed, Tell Me My Name

“Lady Shaded G by Stewart Stafford

This thorned rose is a perfumed pox,
Rumours dog her as contagion itself;
Breeding cherubs with batons sinister,
Her trail leads to noblest chambers.

Mothers warn sons not to mount,
This mare of the rampant night,
With dead eyes of a dark frontier,
Her black dress does smother all.

Fair Tiffany's skin flashes with iron,
Once seen, wantonness shadows,
Shady whispers inflame her temerity,
A rock for purple ships a-crashing.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford