Scandal Quotes

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

~ Vera Nazarian

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

~ Edward Abbey

Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Yes, she was a scandal.Her brother simply didn’t know it.“I fell in the Serpentine today.”“Yes, well, that doesn’t usually happen to women in London. But it’s not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.

~ Sarah Maclean

We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Then, if to make your ruin more,You'll peevishly be coy,Die with the scandal of a whoreAnd never know the joy.

~ John Wilmot

I shouldn't have even been obsessing about it anyway, he probably had a girlfriend. Like a supermodel or playboy bunny or something, someone equivalent to his level of sexiness. Not someone normal like me.

~ Kathey Gray

I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to do and you're protecting yourself, then it's okay and you should do what you want to do.'Margot says, 'Society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man. I mean, all of the comments are about how Lara Jean is a slut, but nobody's saying anything about Peter, and he's right there with her. It's a ridiculous double standard.

~ Jenny Han

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.

~ Kenneth Roberts

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.

~ Kenneth Roberts

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head.

~ Alice Walker

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

~ Criss Jami

By shattering my preconceptions and cultural stereotypes, what materialized was a massive personality who was astonishingly winsome yet gravely terrifying. A man whose breathtaking compassion would draw you in, but whose ferocious honesty could cut and slice like a razor. Someone who was the most controversial, confrontational, divisive, yet compellingly beautiful man who has ever lived. Which is precisely what we would expect if the Creator of the universe happened to invade our world.

~ Timothy J. Stoner

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash, and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

~ Jocelyn Murray

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

~ Oscar Wilde

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

~ Jennifer Harrison

he fought hard against corruption in all forms, especially with the Canal Ring (every scandal during this time seems to have the word ring attached to it, much like every scandal since Watergate has gate attached to it.)

~ Michael Rubbinaccio

If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?

~ Steven Magee

One day, I want enough money to be at the center of a corruption scandal.

~ Gil A. Waters

From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don’t look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

~ Flannery O'connor

How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s deep pockets to buy his way back into our homes and hearts, then it’s not young women he hired who are whores, it’s the people of New York.

~ Valerie Baber

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

~ Jess Walter

Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.

~ Anton Chekhov

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

~ Diana Rigg

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

~ Fred Thompson