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Quotes About Scandal

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can give them something to talk about.
~ Miley Cyrus
People are going to talk no matter what you do, so you might as well give them something to talk about.
~ Unknown
When Stone created an outfit called Citizens United Not Timid (CUNT) during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bossie's group sued him. Stone, maintaining it was a gag, settled the lawsuit.
~ Maggie Haberman
Top Stock brokers are able to plunder the investors money because of inaction by regulator SEBI's top directors year after year
~ Unknown
This was arguably the most disgraceful episode in the bishop's chequered career,
~ Unknown
Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write
~ John Milton
You could get away with actual crimes for years, if you had enough money to protect yourself.
~ John Sandford
You hear some guys might be looking at porn, some guys might be getting their knobs polished by the street girls, that some guys have a little too much cash, that some cocaine's gone astray . . . you hear all that crap. And most of it's crap. Backbiting bullshit.
~ John Sandford
It's not like the countess doesn't already know we're fucking." Fundapellonan blinked at this. "What?" "I assumed she told you I like to fuck around, so you should get with me to see if I would say anything useful while we banged." "Is that what you really think is going on here?" Fundapellonan asked. "Isn't it?" "Well, yes," Fundapellonan admitted. "But you're not supposed to think it.
~ John Scalzi
It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.
~ John Shirley
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
~ John Steinbeck
Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.
~ John Steinbeck
Then, if to make your ruin more, You'll peevishly be coy, Die with the scandal of a whore And never know the joy.
~ John Wilmot
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
~ Dexter Scott King
Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.
~ Anthony Liccione
Your personal matters are always a subject of entertainment for others.
~ Unknown
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Oscar Wilde
You hadn't heard 'Teaser Augustus'?" the Princesse d'Épinay would ask. "But of course," the Marquise de Bavano would reply with a blush, "the Princesse de Sarsina-La Rochefoucauld told me about it, but not in quite the same terms. But it must have been so much more interesting to hear it repeated like that in the company of my cousin," she added, as though she had been speaking of a song accompanied by the composer himself.
~ Marcel Proust
For decades (really centuries), the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the ultra-Orthodox Jews, among others, have handled reports of clergy abuse as though the public good were not their problem and have insisted on silence as they refused to report the crimes to authorities.
~ Unknown
Nor can one underestimate the lengths to which the Catholic hierarchy went to keep its ugly secrets to itself. One lay Catholic described it as follows: "Their structure and social chemistry is almost identical to the Mafia. There is a deep secrecy and a fierce loyalty to the organization.
~ Unknown
This has been a repetitive pattern in the United States, where the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Jews, and other denominations have had evidence that one of their own was a predatory pedophile, yet they responded by ignoring the problem, ultimately endangering thousands of children.
~ Unknown
Andan las tres todo el santo día riñendo, pero cuando hay que despellejar a una mujer, están que muerden en un confite.
~ Unknown
home video starring her soon-to-be ex-husband and two of the female production assistants from his latest film had already been uploaded to the Internet. By the time she arrived at her Malibu home—she'd stopped once on the way from the set of her latest movie promo shoot to pick up dinner—the one-thousandth viewing had already been downloaded.
~ Unknown
what it was. They wanted Andrew too, of course, and he was petrified. He basically stayed out of the country until it was all over, which is one of the
~ Marianne Faithfull