A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.

Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.

The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.

Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.