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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time 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.