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

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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

Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.

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

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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

It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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