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Quotes About Scandal

Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
~ William Congreve
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
~ William Congreve
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life.
~ William Cowper
I have heard that well-born girls sometimes fall in love with low-born youths and are covered in scandal which neither threats nor punishment can control, so their fathers are obliged to drive them out of the house. The streets are full of innumerable such once-well-bred girls sitting on the pavements.
~ William Dalrymple
On 8 June 1772, a Scottish banker named Alexander Fordyce disappeared from his office, leaving debts of £550,000.* His bank, Neal, James, Fordyce and Down, imploded soon after and declared bankruptcy. Another institution with large investments in Company stock, Douglas, Heron & Company, otherwise known as the Ayr Bank, closed its doors the following
~ William Dalrymple
A liberal, it turns out, is a conservative who's been indicted.
~ William Landay
Dublin is a big village and a dirty village where gossip reigns supreme'.
~ David Dickson
The secrets started when the maid told her friend, the maid next door who told her Mistres, who told the across the street neighbor and soon the tongues were wagging like flags in the wind....
~ David Fulmer
It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude.
~ David G. Hartwell
LE TOUR ORGANISERS. Make it easier for the cyclists by moving it to Holland where it's flat and drugs are widely available.
~ David Harris
money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.
~ David J. Garrow
Think you it is easy to get a well-known and beautiful woman alone, away from her husband, at so public a gathering? Think you that, in the company of dozens of guests and nearly as many gossipy servants, a man can just pull such a woman aside into a private closet? It would not be easy for any ordinary man--at least I suspect it would not. I cannot say how ordinary men go about their business.
~ David Liss
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
~ Imelda Marcos
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
~ Peter Kreeft
The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.
~ Jim Brown
We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots; The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by false devotion never flammed, Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.
~ Horace Walpole
My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female...
~ Jessica Hahn
If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
~ Eddie Griffin
Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
~ William Raspberry
You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.
~ Chris Christie
Federal authorities have informed Martha Stewart's lawyers she will be indicted for her role in the ImClone insider trading scandal. Good news for Martha - stripes are back in this year.
~ Craig Kilborn
Do you remember the good ol' days when Congress was only unsafe if you were an intern.
~ David Letterman
I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.
~ Jessica Hahn
Good God. I don't believe St. Vincent and the word 'celibacy' have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.
~ Lisa Kleypas