Quotes About Scandal

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

George S. Kaufman was not Miss Astor's last love. George had been supplanted in her affections by one of his best friends, whose name would surely have been disclosed had the hearing gone on. The scoop appeared on August 12 in the Daily Mirror, announcing that the best friend, an unnamed dashing broker and bachelor, maintained a seven-room penthouse on Park Avenue, complete with butler and maid. Kaufman had introduced Mary to "Mr. Big" in December, according to the Mirror.

I tried finding out all I could about Mary Astor. My curiosity was obviously prurient in nature, whetted by those 1936 tabloids. They had given me an itch to find out all I could about the scandal.

Thalberg rose in all his craven majesty. Speaking for the assembled, he said the plaintiff and her attorney were making a grave mistake. The diary, in addition to creating a scandal devastating to the industry, would probably cause her to lose the case and the child too. They urged her to drop it and seek an out-of-court settlement.

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Some publicly-known figure may even feign to be have fallen ill or ill-treated by someone to let the media churn out rumour mill to do indirectly and secretly the promotion of the acting-skill/show of that person or product or an institution through the communication.

The bigger the controversy, the bigger the chance of it being either a diversionary tactics or mere publicity.

The controversy has become an easy way to promote the biopic or the book in a competitive era.

The level of promotion has gone so low that they create the controversy around the movie, book, tv serial or show and blow this news everywhere to make everyone know and talk about it.

The more a person has oneself disgraced , the more the people around him/her are two-faced.

There are so-called celebrity who can take the responsibility of controversy also just to be in the limelight and make the news of the headlines to gain publicity.

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

I never wanted to see another quiz show.

You know, there's problems in racing, but it's not Bob Baffert.

I've never been interested in the whole fame game; the headlines when I was disqualified in 1995 for hitting a ball girl were more than enough to make me want to keep my head under the radar.