quotations about scandal
It is a melancholy reflection upon human nature, to see how small a matter will put the ball of scandal in motion. A mere hint, a significant look, a mysterious countenance; directing attention to a particular person; often gives an alarming impetus to this ignis fatuus. A mere interrogatory is converted into an affirmative assertion--the cry of mad dog is raised--the mass join in the chase, and not unfrequently, a mortal wound is inflicted on the innocent and meritorious, perhaps by one who had no ill-will, or desire to do wrong in any case, but, from mere impulse, joined the rushing crowd.
LEVI CARROLL JUDSON
The Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things
Today the headlines tomorrow hard times
And no-one ever really knows the truth from the lies
And in the end the story deeper must hide
Deeper and deeper and deeper inside
Scandal scandal
QUEEN
"Scandal"
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal.
LAURENCE STERNE
The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne
Forget the violence, forget the pain
Our happy meals will taste the same
Forget the scandal, forget the sleaze
We'll drag the real thing to it's knees
PITCHSHIFTER
"Forget the Facts"
There is a sad propensity in our fallen nature to listen to the retailers of petty scandal. With many, it is the spice of conversation, the exhilarating gas of their minds. Without any intention of doing essential injury to a neighbor, a careless remark, relative to some minor fault of his, may be seized by a babbler, and, as it passes through the babbling tribe, each one adds to its bulk, and gives its color a darker hue, until it assumes the magnitude and blackness of base slander. Few are without visible faults--most persons are sometimes inconsistent. Upon these faults and mistakes petty scandal delights to feast.
HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING
"Slander", Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light
A scandal is a breeze whipped by two or more windbags.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips & Quotes
you've got a history on your breath
that tells of scandals and secrets
SEARCH THE CITY
"The Streetlight Diaries"
Malice may empty her quiver but cannot wound; the dirt will not stick; the jests will not take; 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.
GEORGE SAVILE
"Advice to a Daughter", The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile
And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
AVRIL LAVIGNE
"The Best Damn Thing"
Scandal, like dirt, will rub out when dry.
SIR THOMAS BERNARD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Its On The T.V
In The Paper
Will You Surrender?
No More Anything Ever
I'll Destroy Everything I've Started
But My Own Glass Heaven All Night
It's A Dirty Scandal
Everybody Knows Now
The Rumors And Headlines
Are You Up?
Are You Tired?
Are You Sick?
Are You Unwell?
Does It Hurt When You Come Down?
ONE MAN ARMY
"Rotting in the Doldrums"
A man who takes delight in hearing the faults of others, shows sufficiently that he has a true relish of scandal, and consequently the seeds of this vice within him. If his mind is gratified with hearing the reproaches which are cast on others, he will find the same pleasure in relating them, and be the more apt to do it, as he will naturally imagine every one he converses with is delighted in the same manner with himself.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, September 15, 1714
No one loves to tell a tale of scandal, but to him that loves to hear it.
GEORGE BERKELEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? Time, the common enemy, must be passed, as the phrase is, and the phrase bears its own commentary ; and since the days of gladiators are gone by, what better substitute than blackening the reputation of the living?
GEORGE BANCROFT
Literary and Historical Miscellanies
With scandal and shame they slandered his name
They told him to freeze, they damned him to roast
Disappointed that he passed away peacefully
Never dying to be a mischievous ghost
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Mischievous Ghost"
You're running for your life while the scandal's
Are burning the stairs
There's a fire in the western world
DEAD MOON
"Fire in the Western World", Strange Pray Tell
Scandals are stories, cliffhangers that play out in real time. You have two sides, one saying this is not important and the other saying we know there's documented proof of wrongdoing.
DAVID DEWBERRY
"Is Donald Trump Jr.'s 'I love it' email a smoking gun or a distraction?", Washington Post, July 12, 2017
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
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.
JUVENAL
Satires
Morning after
Bass drum beating
In my head
Sunday papers
Talking scandal
And a cold
Side of the bed
RICHARD THOMPSON
"Salford Sunday"