Quotes About Scandal

For Arthur, there was also a more proximate and personal scandal brewing. On his arm that evening was an elegant, long-limbed young woman. She was almost three decades younger than he was, British, and not his wife.

he said "Miami" left the impression of Sodom-by-the-Sea.

Super gun,' can you imagine?" Karl Walter would muse more than two decades later. Shaking his head, he chuckled. "You can't buy that kind of attention, not for $50 million, not for $100 million.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Rumour has a hundred mouths.

Scandal is a community service and a free entertainment at that; witnesses generally feel obliged to pay admission with sympathy.

The adulterer should not be allowed to marry his whore...

And despite being married with four children, it was rumored that President Banana was partial to men, a somewhat precarious position given that Mugabe had denounced gays as "lower than pigs and dogs," declared them to be "a colonial invention, unknown in African tradition," and passed laws punishing consensual homosexuality with ten years' hard labor.

the Panama Scandal of 1888–92, centered on widespread bribery of French officials and parliamentarians in order to obtain loans to finance a French company seeking to build a canal through Panama.