The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.

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

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

Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.

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

A false report rides post.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

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

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.

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

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

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.