Scandal Quote by Moliere Download Open image “It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.” — Moliere ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Scandal Secret Sin
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. — Moliere Copy Share Image
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven. — Lewis Sperry Chafer Copy Share Image
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. — Moliere Copy Share Image
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat… — Moliere Copy Share Image
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be… — Moliere Copy Share Image
NBC is making a movie about Martha Stewart that will cover the recent stock scandal. They are thinking of calling it 'The Road To… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal. — Jessica Cutler Copy Share Image
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still… — Philip Roth Copy Share
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm worried about John Kerry, he's so confident now that he's already planning his White House sex scandal. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
