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.

Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.

It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.