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Quotes About Scandal

Our supermarkets sell us horsemeat as beef, our politicians fiddle their expenses, and our bankers risk money that isn't theirs. So it's not surprising the public don't trust anyone or anything.
~ Karren Brady
Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo, and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on its circulation and you know what the circulation depends on.
~ Raymond Chandler
Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo, and the political and financial uses of propaganda.
~ Raymond Chandler
MARIA. Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable — but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable. — We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other — but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
wrote the editors at the Boston Globe and told them that Elizabeth Warren was likely fully aware that the fraud on Wall Street caused the collapse of Puerto Rico. Rather than run to the aid of the victims
~ Richard Lawless
big reason this criminal enterprise has been so successful is that it would require the press and the voters to "agree" both parties are thoroughly corrupt. Honest reporting about this "Criminal Underground
~ Richard Lawless
Once, we were talking about public reaction to some political scandal, and I suggested that it was normal for people to need someone to blame. 'Normal doesn't mean it's a good idea,' she answered.
~ Julian Barnes
They said he killed his first wife. Papa said maybe she needed killing.
~ Julie Garwood
But I was tempted to let rumors fly, like keyhole whisperings.
~ K?b? Abe
Farmecele ei erau ca o plant? carnivor?, înzestrat? în mod special cu dulcele miros al mierii. Intai va sem?na seminÅ£ele scandalului îndemnandu-l la un act p?timaÅŸ, iar apoi lanÅ£urile ÅŸantajului îl vor Å£ine legat de maini ÅŸi de picioare.
~ K?b? Abe
The right to liberty was crucial: it is difficult to find a single reference to imprisonment in the whole of rabbinic literature, because only God can curtail the freedom of a human being. Spreading scandal about somebody was tantamount to denying the existence of God.104 Jews were not to think of God as a Big Brother, watching their every move from above; instead they were to cultivate a sense of God within each human being so that our dealings with others became sacred encounters.
~ Karen Armstrong
So all we know about Hugh MacLean is that his financial situation is unclear, he has an unknown number of illegitimate children, and the family curse is true. I've caught quiet a prize!
~ Karen Hawkins
Sorry Your Husband Was Sharing His Saran Wrap Fetish with a Hooker
~ Karen MacInerney
Charlie watched her husband's boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it.
~ Karin Slaughter
the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.
~ Karin Slaughter
Crime was never more egregious than when it victimized a lowly politician.
~ Karin Slaughter
It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.
~ Kate Atkinson
The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
~ Mark Steyn
I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
~ Michelle Hunziker
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
~ William H. Macy
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
~ William Shakespeare
Washington newspaper men know everything.
~ Buffalo Bill
The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.
~ Don Henley
Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.
~ Jessica Hahn