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Quotes About Scandal

Alan sensed Bull as liability, pure liability, triple liability. Alan was now having an affair with a man who had a cunt in the back of his leg. Worse still, the man was his patient. At the very least he would be struck off…
~ Will Self
Kevin watched as Rydell removed the helmet and wrote an address and telephone number on the back of last week's People. The magazine belonged to Monica, the Chinese girl in the garage; she always got hers printed out so there was never any mention of scandal or disaster, but with a triple helping of celebrity romance, particularly anything to do with the British royal family.
~ William Gibson
He always avoided arrest, and everyone except Yellin thought Falkbridge must be bribing somebody. Yellin knew he was bribing somebody, since every month, rain or shine, Falkbridge came to Yellin's house and gave him a sarchel full of money.
~ William Goldman
Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape
~ China Mieville
Fuck her once, she'll write a book about it
~ Chris Kraus
The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.
~ Christina Stead
The New York Enquirer, a journalistic monstrosity that specializes in epic squalor. Incredibly, this monument to obscenity continues to appear on newsstands week after week.
~ Christine Jorgensen
A heavy drinker who suffered debilitating bouts of depression, Smith claimed that he had been raped not once but twice by one of Prince Charles's manservants. Smith also insisted that he saw the same manservant engaged in a sexual act with a senior member of the royal family.
~ Christopher Andersen
Elections to the sixteenth majles were held first in the provinces, and they were conducted so dishonestly that even the British were shocked.
~ Christopher De Bellaigue
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
~ Christopher Hampton
Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea.
~ Henry Fielding
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
~ Henry Fielding
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
~ Henry Kissinger
Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
the role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous….
~ Leo Tolstoy
in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous;
~ Leo Tolstoy
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
~ Leon Jaworski
You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.
~ letterman david
The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who worked for me on this show. Now, my response to that is yes I have. I have had sex with women who worked on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.
~ letterman david
Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
~ levant oscar
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
~ Lewis Black
I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.
~ Adele
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
~ Tony Campolo