Quotes About Scandal

The lid on the first case of spot-fixing in Twenty20 cricket had been blown. On

The indications were that the House of Commons would vote for his impeachment

lifetime risk of maternal death is one thousand times higher in a poor country than in the West. That should be an international scandal. The gap, moreover, is getting wider.

Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, "I'm the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!")

So the "great man" named Rudolph Giuliani made ladies' titties illegal.

The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.

Garry Essendine]: That is no prostitute, but the wife of one of my best friends!

When we have had some of these slaves on board my master's vessels to carry them to other islands, or to America, I have known our mates to commit these acts most shamefully, to the disgrace, not of Christians only, but of men. I have even known them gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old; and these abominations some of them practised to such scandalous excess, that one of our captains discharged the mate and others on that account.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree is fine: its leaves gently turning in the breeze of life. We have no scandal blight, no limb-wrenching storms of fate, no bad apples. I wonder what it is like when the Kennedys sit around for a disk check like this.

No, I'm just being real. Women don't leave rich, powerful men. Even when the whole world knows about their man's sexual indiscretions, they stay. Hillary didn't leave Bill. Camille is standing by Cosby and Kobe Bryant appeased his wife with a four million dollar diamond ring. I don't care how smart the woman is or whether she has her own money. The majority of women don't leave.

Scandaliser est un droit. Être scandalisé est un plaisir.

Rumor exaggerates.

I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

You yourself, I seem to remember, have a way of soaking up scandal broth even as you seem to have a mind for higher and nobler things. Stir yourself.

Do I have a choice?" "A choice? To hear that your son is a crook? Your wife is an adulteress? Your caterer a blackmailer? And you maid takes bribes to stay quiet?

Having sold some $35 billion worth of OxyContin over two decades, the company might now be down, according to press reports, to as little as $500 million in cash.

The Sacklers have done a pretty good job of sucking the life out of Purdue," she said. "Year after year, month after month, they were draining hundreds of millions of dollars." All that was left at this point, she said, was "essentially a shell.