quotations about scandal
A man who takes delight in hearing the faults of others, shows sufficiently that he has a true relish of scandal, and consequently the seeds of this vice within him. If his mind is gratified with hearing the reproaches which are cast on others, he will find the same pleasure in relating them, and be the more apt to do it, as he will naturally imagine every one he converses with is delighted in the same manner with himself.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, September 15, 1714
If something is leaked to the press, the bigmouth will be tracked down and punished. Scandals aren't public scandals if you get there before you enemies do.
MIKE ROYKO
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
The mind, conscious of innocence, despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal.
OVID
Fasti
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
JUVENAL
Satires
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
EDWARD YOUNG
Epistles to Pope
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? Time, the common enemy, must be passed, as the phrase is, and the phrase bears its own commentary ; and since the days of gladiators are gone by, what better substitute than blackening the reputation of the living?
GEORGE BANCROFT
Literary and Historical Miscellanies
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.
EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE
Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life, Volume 2
Yet very modern scandals are unfolding in the here and now under the watch of the State. They are not newly unearthed revelations. They have not convulsed our political establishment. Nor have they jolted a society baffled at the warped values of a previous generation.
CARL O'BRIEN
"While we are busy apologising for the past we are creating tomorrow's scandals", The Irish Times, March 12, 2017
Malice may empty her quiver but cannot wound; the dirt will not stick; the jests will not take; a scandal doth not go deep; it is only a slight stroke upon the injured party, and returneth with the greater force upon those that gave it.
GEORGE SAVILE
"Advice to a Daughter", The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile
Antibody gives new release
Relieves the pain of being sincere
Important to maintain the ties
Mentor in the public's eye
Scandal could expose the lie
NAPALM DEATH
"Antibody"
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Scandal, now you've left me all the world's gonna know
Scandal, they're gonna turn our lives into a freak show
They'll see the heart ache,they'll see the love break
They'll hear me pleading,We'll say for God's sake
Over and over and over again
QUEEN
"Scandal"
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
WILLIAM BENTON CLULOW
Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Love for Love
The government should stop itself getting entangled in "retail politics" from now on and focus on a few big wins, where high-profile scandals are investigated fully and offenders are brought to justice and judged according to the law of the land.
DINESH WEERAKKODY
"Running an effective administration is what people want", Mirror Business, September 15, 2017
Scandal, like a reptile crawling over a bright grass, leaves a trail and a stain.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 5
Sadly we're desensitized
To all the scandals and the cover ups
The conspiracies and lies
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES
"Desensitized"
Morning after
Bass drum beating
In my head
Sunday papers
Talking scandal
And a cold
Side of the bed
RICHARD THOMPSON
"Salford Sunday"
Scandal often stings itself.
BISHOP LESLIE
attributed, Day's Collacon