| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Rush | Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. |
| Edward Young | He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. |
| H L Mencken | The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. |
| Josh Billings | Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. |
| Logan P Smith | How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. |
| Paul Chatfield | Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. |
| Saki | Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. |
| Senator Stephen Young | In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in their uniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists. * . |
| William Congreve | 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 D Howells | Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings, But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings. |
| Ovidius Naso | The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports, but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. |
| Oscar Wilde | Scandal, gossip made tedious by morality. |
| William Shakespeare | The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate, For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. |
| William Cowper | Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life, And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart. |
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