SCANDAL QUOTES III

quotations about scandal

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


And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
'Tis hence they scandal have at will,
And that this member ne'er lies still.

JOHN GAY

The Mad Dog

Tags: John Gay


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


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"


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

Tags: Austin O'Malley


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


Scandal often stings itself.

BISHOP LESLIE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

Tags: William Congreve


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


Morning after
Bass drum beating
In my head
Sunday papers
Talking scandal
And a cold
Side of the bed

RICHARD THOMPSON

"Salford Sunday"


He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.

EDWARD YOUNG

Epistles to Pope

Tags: Edward Young


The mind, conscious of innocence, despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal.

OVID

Fasti

Tags: Ovid


Scandal is what one-half of the world takes a pleasure in inventing, and the other half in believing.

HORACE SMITH

The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish


Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

Tags: Lord Byron


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


The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
What makes him honour'd, or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Rape of Lucrece

Tags: William Shakespeare


Sadly we're desensitized
To all the scandals and the cover ups
The conspiracies and lies

THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES

"Desensitized"


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"


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