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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 on s debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to on 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)

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