Scandal Quotes

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Scandal is only human.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

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.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

It looked incredibly credible!

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

We've got a major scandal with Clinton. Plus, Halloweens on a Saturday this year.

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal.

Silence kills scandal.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.