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Quotes About Scandal

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.
~ Casey Affleck
I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
~ Uzo Aduba
Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
Para realizarse, el amor necesita quebrantar la ley del mundo. En nuestro tiempo el amor es escándalo y desorden, transgresión: el de dos astros que rompen la fatalidad de sus órbitas y se encuentran en la mitad del espacio.
~ Octavio Paz
El amor es escándalo, desorden, transgresión: el de dos astros que rompen la fatalidad de sus órbitas y se encuentran en la mitad del espacio.
~ Octavio Paz
You must be joking! What exactly could they be laughing about?" "Well, I didn't hear it directly, of course. Kenan told Füsun. And she told me…. And she was quite upset, too. Apparently it's general knowledge at Satsat that every night at quitting time, you and Sibel would meet there for a romp on the divan in the corner office. This is what all the snickering was about." "What's happened now?
~ Orhan Pamuk
When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.
~ Orson Scott Card
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
~ Oscar Wilde
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
~ Oscar Wilde
You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
~ Oscar Wilde
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
~ Conrad Joseph
No pervs allowed in the Oval Office," Donald said. "I didn't make the rules.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson, — — from earliest possibility, I suppose, who lived with half the gay world at hack and manger, and now obliges such as will not pay hushmoney with a history of whatever she
~ Walter Scott
Some time ago Ken Galbraith, in his witty and insightful The Great Crash, coined a new economic term: "the bezzle," defined as the current amount of undiscovered embezzlement. This financial creature has a magical quality: The embezzlers are richer by the amount of the bezzle, while the embezzlees do not yet feel poorer.
~ Warren Buffett
Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches...
~ Charles Stross
Gossip? Me? How would I know about such things?" "Don't think of it as gossip. Think of it as rumor and innuendo.
~ Chet Williamson
Washington seems to be more concerned about political mud than radioactive dust.
~ Walter Winchell, 1959
...love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea.
~ Henry Fielding
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
~ Harold MacMillan
Say something nice about somebody and nobody will listen. Make it mean, malicious, scandalous and everybody in town will help you spread the word.
~ Harold Robbins
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
~ Harry S. Truman
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S. Truman
~ Harry S. Truman
That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.
~ Harry Turtledove