“ Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. ”
- Jean Baptiste Moliere- Copy
- 425
“ One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2K
“ Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. ”
- Hector Hugh Munro- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. ”
- Paul Chatfield- Copy
- 1.5K
“ She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it. ”
- Paul O’Neil- Copy
- 185
“ The mightier man, the mightier is the thingWhat makes him honour'd, or begets him hate;For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.4K
“ To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 3.6K
“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 1.5K
“ O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down! ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
- 2.6K
“ It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. ”
- Elizabeth Taylor- Copy
- 3K
“ An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 1.1K
“ In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 68
“ 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. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unappetizing meat. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 2.9K
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