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Quotes About Scandal

Scandalocity is defined as "the speed at which scandal measured in velocity can turn you into a star.
~ Unknown
Infamy is the new PR. --Scandalocity by Coerte V.W. Felske
~ Unknown
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
~ Hilary Duff
You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that. ~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.
~ Hilary Mantel
there are liasons which would put yours in the shade...
~ Hilary Mantel
A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.
~ Hilary Mantel
In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark.
~ Hilary Mantel
He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.
~ Hilary Mantel
Henry," the archbishop says, "I have seen you promote within your own court and council persons whose principles and morals will hardly bear scrutiny. I have seen you deify your own will and appetite, to the sorrow and scandal of Christian people. I have been loyal to you, to the point of violation of my own conscience. I have done much for you, but now I have done the last thing I will ever do.
~ Hilary Mantel
They say she has all the gentlemen of the king's privy chamber, one after another. She don't like delay so they all stand in a line frigging their members, till she shouts, "Next.
~ Hilary Mantel
Alice thought of poor Hillary Clinton. Imagine having the whole world know that your husband had cheated on you in such a messy way. You would have thought being president of the United States should have been a pretty distracting sort of job.
~ Liane Moriarty
Oh my Lord...she'd seduced her brother-in-law with butter.
~ Liane Moriarty
I picked something with lots of sex, drugs and murder," Madeline had said, "so we have a lively discussion. Ideally there should be an argument." The
~ Liane Moriarty
It may occur to you that we had better wait until the Bill is drafted, and can be then criticised in detail and on its merits. But it is, on the other hand, easier to destroy such a creature in the embryonic stage than after birth. Its emergence into print, as a serious legislative proposal, endorsed (unless I am misinformed) by the active or passive concurrence of the entire Episcopate, would of itself be a scandal to our Church of the gravest kind.
~ Unknown
Meanwhile, news has been leaked to the press that the Hero of Drummond Street will be pictured on the cover of a national magazine, nude.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
The order of Fungi is still Chaos, a scandal of art, no botanist knowing what is a Species and what is a Variety.
~ Unknown
The things that happened behind the closed door of that house were appalling, and like a coward, I did a flit. I left them to it.
~ Lisa Jewell
And to think that you got Interpol involved in this. How embarrassing!
~ Lisa Jewell
And she also said that Phoebe was going out with Leo's (the sisters' dad) little brother when she died but also people thought she might have been going out with Leo too even though he was four years older than her! And also that Phoebe is Tyler's mum's sister! So the girl on the bench is actually Tyler's aunt.
~ Lisa Jewell
Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear.
~ Lisa Kleypas
He'll catch the pox someday," Pandora persisted darkly, "if he hasn't already. And then he'll give it to me." "You're being dramatic. And not all rakes have the pox." "I'm going to ask him if he does." "Pandora, you wouldn't! The poor man would be horrified." "So would I, if I ended up losing my nose.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm supposed to stay away from you." He grinned at that. "Says who?" She ignored the question. "And while I'm certain that at least half the rumors about you couldn't possibly be true—" "They are," Gideon said without a trace of shame. "You're a rake, then." "The worst kind.
~ Lisa Kleypas
No wonder so many women had succumbed to this man, had thrown away their reputations and their honor for him…had even, if rumor could be believed, threatened to kill themselves when he left them. He was sensuality incarnate.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Con artists specialize in finding what people need, and Trump knows the media craves variety, scandal, secrets, and he-said-she-said stories, even of the most dubious provenance.
~ Rick Wilson