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Rumor: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.— POPE — Temple of Fame. L. 468.
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.— SCOTT — Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto II. St. 22.
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 97, L.
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.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Induction. L. 15.
S. Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.— HERBERT — The Temple. The Church Porch. St. 65.
The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife, More plentiful than hope.— HERBERT — The Church. Sunday.
Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday- But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?— HOOD — An Open Question. St. 1.
O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair, How welcome to the weary and the old ! Day of the Lord! and truce to earthly care! Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!— LONGFELLOW — Christus. Pt. III. John Endicott. Act I. Sc. 2.
So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept. T.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VII. L. 632.
Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati. The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy.— SENECA — Hercules Furens. 353.
Omne sub regno graviore regnum est. Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.— SENECA — Hercules Furens. 614.
Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores. Idle rumors were also added to wellfounded apprehensions.— LUCAN — Pharsalia. I. 469.
Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor. Some report elsewhere whatever is told. them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds some thing to what he has heard.— OVID — Metamorphoses. XII. 57.
Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt. Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.— PLAUTUS — Persa. III. 1. 23.
Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet. Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Haud semper erret fama; aliquando et elegit. Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.— TACITUS — Agricola. IX.
Extemplo Libyæ magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum ; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit. * * * * * * Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumæ Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linguæ, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures. Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;-the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. * * * A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open.— VIRGIL — Eneid. IV. 173.