The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

There are always more tricks in a town than are talked of. [ Cervantes ]

The more anyone speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. [ Lavater ]

A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]

Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. [ Sterne ]

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Tom hinted at his dislike at some trifle his mistress had said; she asked him how he would talk to her after marriage if he talked at this rate before. [ Addison ]

Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. [ Goldsmith ]

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of. [ Pascal ]