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Quotes About Scandal

What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda?" "My duty," said Griselda. "My duty as the Vicaress. Tea and scandal at four thirty.
~ Agatha Christie
Oh, yes, sir." Betty's eyes sparkled with the pleasure of public disaster. "Wasn't it dreadful?
~ Agatha Christie
go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.
~ Agatha Christie
It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more than any mere political chicanery or fraud. (Hercule Poirot)
~ Agatha Christie
As one journeys through life," said Poirot, "one finds more and more that people are often interested in things that are none of their own business. Even more so than they are in things that could be considered as their own business.
~ Agatha Christie
These women all lose their heads over a good-looking clergyman. You hear of it over and over again.
~ Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
~ Agatha Christie
Breakfast with the Borgias.
~ Agatha Christie
Well, you know, bigamy is bigamy.
~ Agatha Christie
You see, his father wasn't married to his mother…." "Really? I had no idea of that." "Everyone knows about it down here, otherwise I wouldn't have said anything about it.
~ Agatha Christie
Three-Act Tragedy Death in
~ Agatha Christie
That's why I say, go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours. If I may make a suggestion, go to a part of the world where you haven't got any friends scattered about.
~ Agatha Christie
rumours, of course, as there always were
~ Agatha Christie
Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.
~ Rebecca Loos
When you can use forged photograph of Manoj Tiwari then all your claims are false. The whole party and their thinking is fake.
~ Manoj Tiwari
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
~ Sienna Miller
Every time I find a picture of him with other women, or read in magazines that he's involved with 'groupies,' I don't go and show up where he is making a huge scene and getting our faces put all over the TV and papers.
~ Kim Mathers
The picture was of me, and I sent it.
~ Anthony Weiner
Scandal is like McDonald's. It's cheap and it's easily accessible to the masses, and when you're going to McDonald's, you know that you can get a salad, but do you want a salad? No. You want a Big Mac and French fries with an apple pie and a sundae.
~ Perez Hilton
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
~ Bernie Sanders
Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
'The Big Short' is, among other things, a blistering, detailed indictment of the way Wall Street does business, and its particular villains are the investment banks.
~ John Lanchester