“Credulity lives next door to Gossip.”

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

“If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”

“I was puzzled. Was there something happening next door to where I lived that I did not know? I thought I had poked my nose into every bit of conceivable business in the neighborhood; if something was being sold next door, then I certainly wanted to know about it.”

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”

“He himself must be
the key, now, to the next door,
the next terrors of freedom and joy.”

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”

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