Scandal quotes
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. Consider all the scandals facing the Obama administration, especially Benghazi and the Select Committee.
-- Allen West -
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
-- Arthur Cravan -
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Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
-- Bella Bathurst -
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.
-- Bennie Thompson -
All one great big lie.
-- Bernard Madoff -
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It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.
-- Bernard Madoff -
People like scandals.
-- Blanka Vlasic -
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
-- Bob Woodward -
The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
-- Bob Woodward -
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If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century,
-- Bruno Le Maire -
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
-- C. D. Broad -
We've got a major scandal with Clinton. Plus, Halloweens on a Saturday this year.
-- C. Sue Carter -
Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.
-- Cassandra Clare -
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Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.
-- Catherine Marshall -
The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.
-- Chris Chocola -
You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.' It's a gift.
-- Christina Dodd -
The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.
-- Chuck Todd -
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My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina.
-- Darby Stanchfield -
Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
-- Dario Fo -
I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.
-- Demi Lovato -
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
-- Douglas Sirk -
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The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.
-- E. J. Dionne -
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
-- Elias Canetti -
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
-- George Farquhar -
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English people have seen me get through scandals.
-- George Michael -
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
-- George Packer -
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.
-- George Pell -
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
-- George Stevens -
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If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
-- Gerald Vann -
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
-- Ginny Brown-Waite -
The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.
-- Harry Markopolos -
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I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.
-- Harry Markopolos -
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.
-- Harry Markopolos -
I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
-- Hector Elizondo -
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
-- Henry Fielding -
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I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Scandal is only human.
-- Jerry Saltz -
The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
-- Jessica Hahn -
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I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.
-- Jessica Valenti -
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
-- Josh Billings -
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
-- Judah Smith -
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If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
-- Kenneth Lay -
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
-- Larry Flynt -
The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.
-- Larry Noble -
So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?
-- Laurence Sterne -
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Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.
-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
-- Livy -
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
-- Lord Byron -
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
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Any truth creates a scandal.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.
-- Mark Noll -
I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.
-- Mark Shields -
The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.
-- Mark Shields -
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The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.
-- Marlene Dumas -
When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.
-- Mary Ellen Mark -
I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
-- Matt Damon -
Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.
-- Meg Ryan -
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I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
-- Michael Kinsley -
It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth
-- Mike Pence -
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
-- Moliere -
It looked incredibly credible!
-- Nicola Horlick -
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Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
-- Octave Feuillet -
It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.
-- Olivia -
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
-- Otto Schily -
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
-- Peter Kreeft -
The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
-- Philip Yancey -
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
-- Phyllis McGinley -
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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
-- Pierre Salinger -
And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.
-- Rachel Field -
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
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No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
Money you haven't earned is not good for you.
-- Robert Maxwell -
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
-- Robert Zoellick -
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We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.
-- Saint Basil -
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
-- Sal Albanese -
Happy is he who causes a scandal
-- Salvador Dali -
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
-- Salvador Dali -
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Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
-- Shelby Foote -
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.
-- Tom Brokaw -
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
-- Tom Petri -
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Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
-- William Benton Clulow -
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
-- William Congreve -
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.
-- William Ernest Henley -
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
-- William Wycherley -
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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 -
It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.
-- James Carafano -
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.
-- Jerome Kerviel -
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
-- John Osborne -
