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.

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.

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.

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

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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

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.

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

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

Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.

In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.

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