"Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises,..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.
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“Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.”
“It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.”
“What some people invent the rest enlarge.”
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“I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.”
“Fond of those hives where folly reigns,And cards and scandal are the chains,Where the pert virgin slights a name,And scorns to redden into shame.”
“People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.”