Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.

History is only gossip.

History is merely gossip

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.