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Quotes About Scandal

But one didn't attach any more significance to these rumours than to the idea that a certain film star had a furry animal removed from his rectum
~ Louis Theroux
John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
~ Louisa May Alcott
Three decades of being the most respectable science professional or suburban mother count for nothing set against one fuck in a doorway.
~ Louise Doughty
The church would have been devastated without the Rockefeller money and torn apart by the scandal.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller's papers reveal that he and Standard Oil entered willingly into a staggering amount of corruption.
~ Ron Chernow
For Rockefeller, Rice was nothing but a blackmailer.
~ Ron Chernow
Though only ten at the time and probably ignorant of what had happened—it's hard to imagine Eliza confiding such scandalous things to a young boy—John later ridiculed the rape charge and mocked the idea of his father fleeing justice.
~ Ron Chernow
Hamilton did not think Burr would be a harmless, lackadaisical president. "He is sanguine enough to hope everything, daring enough to attempt everything, wicked enough to scruple nothing," Hamilton told Gouverneur Morris. From his legal practice, Hamilton knew that Burr had exorbitant debts and might be susceptible to bribes from foreign governments. He briefed Federalists about the scandals involving Burr and the Holland Company and the gross trickery behind the Manhattan Company.
~ Ron Chernow
You aroused his . . . that surely was very indiscreet.
~ Ronald Firbank
Vecina y amiga. ¿Qué más tengo que decir? Por supuesto que las maliciosas revistas de escándalo de la ciudad llenaron columnas con insinuaciones y frases de doble sentido, pero ello no nos autoriza a ponernos a su nivel.
~ Salman Rushdie
I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.
~ David Brooks
d'Anne d'Autriche
~ Alexandre Dumas
Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.
~ Alison Weir
Lady Wingfield had confided to a friend that the Queen was a loose woman.
~ Alison Weir
If you could forget that they were two heretics, and that Lord Robert had very likely murdered his wife, they were perfect for each other.
~ Alison Weir
Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She tipped back her head and swilled down the last of her wine. 'Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Goddamn bloody arsefoam. Daddy drilling Mommy on the kitchen table.
~ Joe Hill
There's more politics in the police department than the Catholic Church,
~ Joel Goldman
I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
~ Hector Elizondo
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
~ Barbara Olson
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
~ Don Imus
If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.
~ E.M Cioran
It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.
~ E.M. Forster