quotations about scandal
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
WILLIAM BENTON CLULOW
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Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
Scandal is the offspring of envy and malice, nursed by society, and cultivated by disappointment.
LADY BLESSINGTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
The mind, conscious of innocence, despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal.
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Fasti
The government should stop itself getting entangled in "retail politics" from now on and focus on a few big wins, where high-profile scandals are investigated fully and offenders are brought to justice and judged according to the law of the land.
DINESH WEERAKKODY
"Running an effective administration is what people want", Mirror Business, September 15, 2017
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
Everyone is someone
Everyone is someone in L.A., in L.A
Movies and the scandals
Stories and the vandals in L.A., in L.A
FELIX DA HOUSECAT
"Everyone Is Someone in L.A."
To the pusillanimous and the idle, scandal is the condiment of life; and while backbiting furnishes their entertainment abroad, domestic quarreling fills up the leisure hours at home.
GEORGE BANCROFT
Literary and Historical Miscellanies
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
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"
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"
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
If something is leaked to the press, the bigmouth will be tracked down and punished. Scandals aren't public scandals if you get there before you enemies do.
MIKE ROYKO
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
A scandal is a breeze whipped by two or more windbags.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips & Quotes
Morning after
Bass drum beating
In my head
Sunday papers
Talking scandal
And a cold
Side of the bed
RICHARD THOMPSON
"Salford Sunday"
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Yet very modern scandals are unfolding in the here and now under the watch of the State. They are not newly unearthed revelations. They have not convulsed our political establishment. Nor have they jolted a society baffled at the warped values of a previous generation.
CARL O'BRIEN
"While we are busy apologising for the past we are creating tomorrow's scandals", The Irish Times, March 12, 2017
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
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
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
EDWARD ABBEY
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast