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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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