Best Scandal Wisdom
306 Scandal quotes by 244 unique authors
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Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity…
— Peter York
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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
— Lord Byron
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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…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does…
— Plautus
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
— Moliere
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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
— Ouida
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A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
— Ouida
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
— William Shakespeare
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No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
— William Shakespeare
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You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.
— William Shakespeare
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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…
— Jean de La Fontaine
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
— Ovid
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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…
— Samuel Johnson
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We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still,…
— Leigh Hunt
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There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
— Juvenal
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Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.
— Francis Quarles
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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
— Roger L'Estrange
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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,…
— Laurence Sterne
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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…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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.…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
— Livy
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The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public…
— Marlene Dumas
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Scandal is only human.
— Jerry Saltz
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We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.
— Saint Basil
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