Scandal Quotes
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out. (Quote by - Mae West)
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. (Quote by - William Wycherley)
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. (Quote by - Moliere)
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)
The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. (Quote by - Chris Chocola)
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. (Quote by - George Stevens)
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. (Quote by - Benjamin Rush)
We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess. (Quote by - Peter Utley)
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Ye prime adepts in scandal's school, who rail by precept and detract by rule! (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
A man dishonored is worse than dead. (Quote by - Cervantes)
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue. (Quote by - Edward Young)
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame: On eagles wings immortal SCANDALs fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. (Quote by - William Harvey)
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. (Quote by - Ovid)
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. (Quote by - John Linder)
It's an absolute scandal that there is no proper financial regulation system within football. (Quote by - Graham Kelly)
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self. (Quote by - Sir Richard Steele)
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
These are the spiders of society; They weave their petty webs of lies and sneers, And lie themselves in ambush for the spoil, The web seems fair, and glitters in the sun, And the poor victim winds him in the toil Before he dreams of danger or of death. (Quote by - Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Malice may empty her quiver, but cannot wound; the dirt will not stick, the jests will not take. Without the consent of the world, a scandal doth not go deep; it is only a slight stroke upon the injured party, and returneth with the greater force upon those that gave it. (Quote by - John Faucit Saville)
Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House. (Quote by - Mark Foley)
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. (Quote by - Bob Woodward)
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. (Quote by - Nicolas Chamfort)
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. (Quote by - J. William Fulbright)
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself. (Quote by - William Congreve)
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward. (Quote by - John Hickenlooper)
Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings. (Quote by - William D. Howells)
Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns. (Quote by - Fred Thompson)
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? (Quote by - George Bancroft)
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal. (Quote by - Livy)
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. (Quote by - John Yoo)
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. (Quote by - Ouida)
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. (Quote by - David R. Gergen)
There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. (Quote by - Logan P. Smith)
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. (Quote by - James Bovard)
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. (Quote by - Saint Ambrose)
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. (Quote by - Bible)
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
Longevity conquers scandal every time. (Quote by - Shelby Foote)
The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here. (Quote by - Marion Zimmer Bradley)
This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades. (Quote by - Elliot Richardson)
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. (Quote by - William Benton Clulow)
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal. (Quote by - Ellen Tauscher)
The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Scandalis an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. (Quote by - Anna Jameson)
One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America. (Quote by - Ayatollah Khomeini)
I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet. (Quote by - Diana Rigg)
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. (Quote by - Ouida)
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. (Quote by - Simon Newcomb)
It was generally agreed, and with indignation by a few, that it had been a great scandal. (Quote by - Taylor Caldwell)
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue. (Quote by - Edwin Percy Whipple)
I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet. (Quote by - Kurt Loder)
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us. (Quote by - Anon.)
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. (Quote by - John Osborne)
These things have happened to other people in other parties, we'll live to see another day. (Quote by - Sandra Gidley)
I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important. (Quote by - Claudia Cardinale)
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. (Quote by - Moliere)
The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. (Quote by - Pierre Salinger)
Flavia, most tender of her own good name, is rather careless of a sister's fame. (Quote by - William Cowper)
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. (Quote by - Paul Chatfield)
I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life. (Quote by - Hector Elizondo)
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. (Quote by - Benazir Bhutto)
On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, while virtue's actions are but born and die. (Quote by - Stephen Harvey)
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly Scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. (Quote by - Douglas Sirk)
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. (Quote by - Ouida)
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. (Quote by - Saki)
Believe that story false that ought not to be true. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. (Quote by - Robert Cecil)
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. (Quote by - Tom Petri)
It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. (Quote by - Tom Petri)
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned. (Quote by - Donna Rice)
I find great numbers of moderately good people who think it fine to talk scandal. They regard it as a sort of evidence of their own goodness. (Quote by - Rev. Frederick William Faber)
Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role. (Quote by - Paul Weyrich)
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. (Quote by - Tony Campolo)
Her tea she sweetens, as she sips, with scandal. (Quote by - Samuel Rogers)
He and his family now need to have their personal privacy respected. (Quote by - Andrew Stunell)
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)
The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing. (Quote by - Jessica Hahn)
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. (Quote by - Edward Young)
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. (Quote by - Saint Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius)
Scandalis what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. (Quote by - Paul Chatfield)
History is made in the class struggle and not in bed. (Quote by - Alex Mitchell)
I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should. (Quote by - Timothy Hutton)
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. (Quote by - Publius Ovidius Naso)
Scandaldies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. (Quote by - Benjamin Rush)
