Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

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

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

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

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

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

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.

It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.

Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.