Quotes About Scandal

Will there not be any scandal if she marries *me*?" I asked -- not quite believing that living in pseudo-wedlock with a half-human foreign transvestite was any improvement over spinsterhood.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

Journalism is organized gossip.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

You're spreading rumors about me? At least you found a hobby spreading something other than your legs.

Can't say I miss my husband, though. He turned into a real asshole about this and kicked me out of my house and then filed for divorce. Just because I nailed his brother, and the minister.

Defender la alegría como una trinchera Defenderla de la rutina y del escándalo, de las ausencias transitorias y definitivas. Defender la alegría como un principio... de las dulces infamias y graves diagnósticos. Defender la alegría como un destino. Como una certeza. Defender la alegría como un derecho...

Scandalous stories of extramarital affairs and abortions persisted in circulating, but that was largely because she made no attempt to deny the rumors, since they were true.

Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid the corruptions and profanities of a Court, the scandal of her position and the enervation of luxury and pleasure — and this lustre she added to her generosity, her kindness and her womanly tenderness.

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

The great truth of the Incarnation is that the Son of God became flesh and dwelt among us. In this foundational truth we may emphasize the nature of the Son of Man himself, or we may emphasize his taking on flesh and dwelling among us. The condemning scandal for evangelicals is that they have neglected this second emphasis and all that it implies about the possibility of thinking about this realm of flesh. Their redeeming scandal is that they have not yet forgotten the first.

The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.

I said to the wife, Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one. And she said, I'll bet it's that stuck up Phyllis at number 23.

Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood.