Liz Smith

“I think the world is run by 'pro-am's.' Almost everybody is doing something they're not really qualified to do.”

“Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”

“Celebrities are the new royalty.”

“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.”

“Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.”

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

“I'm a combination of my mother and my father. My mother was a phony, and my father was a terrible gossip. That's a good combination for a gossip columnist.”

“I don't think you should ever be rude to anybody, unless they're rude to you.”

“I've never been a mean-spirited gossip. That's not my style.”

“I don't care what they write about me, as long as it's not true.”