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

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.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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

One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.

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

There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.

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

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

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.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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