8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth. This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos! ' just as they shout 'Down with the army! ' or 'Death to the Jews!. Jean Lorrain
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
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Criss Jami
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
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Paulo Coelho
How would your life be different if… You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day… You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
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Steve Maraboli
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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Marcus Aurelius
A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Jean Lorrain
(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect .. and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than...
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip creosote into their Roederer when getting drunk.. I have even...
