100+ Scandal Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "The philosophy of Francis Bacon: An address delivered at Cambridge on the occasion of the Bacon tercentenary". Book by C. D. Broad, p. 67, October 5, 1926.

topic: Philosophy, Scandal, Glory

We've got a major scandal with Clinton. Plus, Halloweens on a Saturday this year.

- C. Sue Carter

topic: Halloween, Years, Scandal

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

topic: May, Scandal, Sides, Clockwork Angel, Will Herondale

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

- Catherine Marshall

topic: Scandal, Poverty, Changed

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

topic: Oil, Stories, Scandal

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

source: Christina Dodd (2008). “Into the Shadow: Darkness Chosen”, p.12, Penguin

topic: Together, Scandal, Liquor

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

topic: Scandal, Corruption, Mccain, High Points

My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina.

- Darby Stanchfield

topic: Scandal, My Favorite, Members

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

- Dario Fo

topic: Democracy, Scandal, Western

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

- Demi Lovato

topic: Taken, Stories, Scandal

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

topic: Opportunity, Directors, Scandal

The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

- E. J. Dionne

topic: Secret, Matter, Scandal, Money Matters

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

- Elias Canetti

topic: Machines, Scandal, Hostage

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

- Elizabeth Taylor

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Friendship, Real, Scandal, Who Your Real Friends Are, Who Your Friends Are

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

- George Farquhar

source: 'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1

topic: Justice, Rags, Scandal, Shameful, Rags To Riches

English people have seen me get through scandals.

- George Michael

topic: People, Scandal

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

- George Packer

topic: Character, Destiny, Scandal

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

- George Pell

topic: People, Abortion, Scandal, Priesthood, Physical Abuse

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

- George Stevens

topic: Might, Scandal

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

topic: Long, Church, Scandal

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: People, Scandal, Morality

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

topic: Scandal, Facts, United Nations

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

- Harry Markopolos

topic: Needs, Scandal, Foxes

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

topic: People, Looks, Scandal

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

- Harry Markopolos

topic: Regulation, Scandal, Corruption

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

- Hector Elizondo

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Bullets, Scandal

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Tea, Scandal, Cold, Sweeteners

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Littles, Scandal, Parody

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

topic: Speech, Scandal, Used, Facetious

Scandal is only human.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Humanity, Scandal, Humans

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

- Jessica Hahn

topic: Blessing, Scandal, Kind

I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

- Jessica Valenti

topic: Bored, Scandal, Tvs, Battlestar Galactica

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

topic: Book, Looks, Scandal, Printed Books, Libel

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

- Josh Billings

topic: Tea, Maids, Scandal, Old Maids

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

topic: Law, Scandal, Corruption, Breaking The Law

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

- Larry Flynt

topic: Trying, Scandal, Get Involved

The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.

- Larry Noble

topic: Reality, Scandal, Republican

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

topic: Cutting, Weapons, Scandal

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

topic: Running, Romance, Scandal, American Family

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

- Livy

topic: Moving, Scandal

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

- Lord Byron

topic: Scandal, Form, Dissection

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Thieves, Scandal, Cases, Receiver

Any truth creates a scandal.

- Marguerite Yourcenar

topic: Truth, Scandal

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

- Mark Noll

topic: Mind, Scandal, Evangelical

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

topic: People, Scandal, Eras

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

topic: Thinking, Scandal, Shame, Public Transportation

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

topic: Class, Crowds, Scandal, Courtesans, Honest Woman

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

topic: War, Sky, Scandal

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

topic: Sex, Scandal, Married

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

topic: Iraq, Adorable, Scandal, Impeachment

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

- Michael Kinsley

source: "Crossfire", CNN, November 15, 1990.

topic: Scandal, Illegal

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

topic: Scandal, Teeth, Reform, Mismanagement

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

- Moliere

topic: Secret, Scandal, Sin

It looked incredibly credible!

- Nicola Horlick

topic: Scandal, Corruption

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

- Octave Feuillet

topic: Gossip, Rumor, Scandal, Henchmen, Idle Gossip

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

topic: Scandal, Way, Needs

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Gossip, Political, Scandal, Idle Gossip

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

topic: Mean, Scandal, Doe, Investigative Journalism

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

topic: Mind, Suffering, Scandal

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

- Philip Yancey

source: Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.61, Harper Collins

topic: Pain, Grace, Scandal

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Race, Gossip, Scandal, Malicious Gossip, Tycoons

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

- Pierre Salinger

topic: Scandal

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

- Rachel Field

source: Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

topic: Scandal, Way, Catching, Catching Up

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Scandal, Foundation, Tales

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Believe, Stories, Scandal

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Hope, Queens, Scandal, Queen Elizabeth

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

topic: Rumor, Done, Scandal

Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

- Robert Maxwell

topic: Scandal, Corruption

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

- Robert Zoellick

topic: Cancer, Scandal, Moral, Governance

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.

- Saint Basil

topic: Order, Suffering, Scandal

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

- Sal Albanese

topic: Reform, Scandal

Happy is he who causes a scandal

- Salvador Dali

topic: Scandal, Causes

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Artist, World, Scandal

Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.

- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

topic: Men, World, Scandal

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

- Shelby Foote

source: Shelby Foote (1992). “Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative”, Vintage

topic: Time, Scandal, Conquer

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

topic: Years, Scandal, Life Is, Watergate

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

source: "Reaction to CIA leak indictments", www.cnn.com. October 28, 2005.

topic: People, Scandal, Cover Ups

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

- William Benton Clulow

source: William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.137

topic: Wise, Sports, Scandal

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

- William Congreve

topic: Tea, Scandal, Ancient

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

topic: Labyrinth, Scandal, Retreat, Pseudonyms

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

source: "The Country Wife".

topic: Women, Honor, 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

topic: Church, Tails, Scandal, Whisk

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

topic: Evil, Politics, Scandal

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

topic: Track, Scandal, Kind

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

- John Osborne

source: John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.114, Oberon Books

topic: Tea, London, Scandal, Sweeteners

[Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.

- Norman L. Eisen

topic: Three, Scandal, Vote

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Loss, Oil, Scandal, Loss Of Innocence

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

topic: Disease, Scandal, Virtue, Vice And Virtue

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

- Roger L'Estrange

topic: Two, Scandal, Applause

Bad Influence, which is an early movie of mine that I'm very fond of. It was an unhappy experience when that picture got released, because it coincided with that ridiculous Rob Lowe videotape scandal.

- Curtis Hanson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Unhappy, Scandal, Ridiculous, Lowes

My favorite cast member of 'Scandal' is Josh Malina.

- Darby Stanchfield

source: "'Scandal': Darby Stanchfield's favorite cast member is …" by Andrea Reiher, screenertv.com. November 19, 2013.

topic: Scandal, My Favorite, Members, Josh, Cast Members

Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

- Ross Douthat

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: House, Church, Scandal

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

- George Bancroft

source: George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.64

topic: Scandal, Hours, Heavy

Not one single scandal that Hillary Clinton has been accused of has ever, ever been proved.

- Thomas Roberts

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Scandal, Clinton, Accused

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

- Laurie Garrett

topic: Mistake, Scandal, Stories

To most women art is a form of scandal.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

topic: Art, Women, Scandal

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

- St. Jerome

topic: Scandal, Tongue, One Love

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.

- Jean Baudrillard

source: Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.229, Verso

topic: Mean, Race, Scandal

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

- Lewis Grizzard

source: Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

topic: Children, News, Scandal

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).

- Stephen Colbert

source: Twitter post from Nov 13, 2012

topic: Scandal, Bigs, Committed

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Nsa, Politics, Scandal, Fallouts

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

- Francis Quarles

source: Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.49

topic: Hatred, Division, Scandal, Factions

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

- Paul Krugman

topic: Different, Stories, Scandal, Madoff

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Scandal, Complacency

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

- Christina Stead

source: Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.540, Open Road Media

topic: People, Scandal, Finance

The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

- Galileo Galilei

topic: Fall, Would Be, Scandal

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2758, Delphi Classics

topic: Music, Scandal, Cold

An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Rumor, Scandal, Internet, John Kerry

Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food - that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

- Pope Francis

source: "Pope Francis Insists Church Must Help Poor, Not ‘Speak Of Theology’" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

topic: Children, News, Scandal, Rest Easy

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

topic: Graduation, School, Scandal

As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that this picture [Bad Influence] had been put out to capitalize on the scandal. Which, of course, would have been impossible.

- Curtis Hanson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: People, Scandal, Ridiculous

- Rachel Maddow

topic: Sports, Scandal, Dollars

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

- John Banville

topic: Science, Two, Scandal

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

- George W. Bush

source: "The sins of the CEOs". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. August 7, 2002.

topic: Pages, Scandal, Corruption

The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.

- Marina Warner

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Scandal, Today, Revolution

I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Party, Thinking, Scandal

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

- John Legend

topic: Scandal, Email, Use

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

- Anton Chekhov

source: "The Piano Player". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

topic: Love, Love Is, Scandal

In a recent interview, Howard Dean admitted that he used to drink and smoke pot. So, now all he needs to put him over the top is a sex scandal.

- David Letterman

topic: Sex, Needs, Scandal

There's some kind of a thing where when she was Secretary of State she was using her own e-mail instead of the State Department, and I thought finally, a Clinton scandal the entire family can enjoy.

- David Letterman

topic: Mail, Scandal, Kind

This Hillary Clinton scandal has to do with emails. All I get are emails for Canadian Viagra.

- David Letterman

topic: Email, Viagra, Scandal

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

- Greg Gutfeld

source: Greg Gutfeld (2015). “How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct”, p.123, Crown Forum

topic: Media, Politics, Scandal

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

- Tony Campolo

topic: Issues, Addresses, Scandal, Moral Issues

Silence kills scandal.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Silence, Scandal

Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Curiosity, Scandal

After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999 during which their CEO was - oh who was it? Oh that's right. ... Cheney himself has not been implicated in the scandal and according to Cheney's lawyer there is no allegation whatsoever that he acted in any way other than in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. And you know what? It's still true today.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Long, Scandal, Today, Exaggerating, Allegations

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

- Rob Lowe

source: "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

topic: Scandal, Buried

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

- Rob Lowe

source: "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

topic: Scandal, Interest, Meetings

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

- Megan Fox

topic: People, Scandal, Hungry

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

topic: Dying, Scandal

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

- Judah Smith

source: Judah Smith (2014). “Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Jesus, Care, Scandal, Scandalous

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

- Walter Bagehot

topic: Funny, Scandal, Youth

State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Offering, Email, Scandal, Quid Pro Quo

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

- Ron Fournier

topic: Mean, Victory, Scandal

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

- Karl Kraus

source: Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

topic: Police, Literature, Scandal

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.162

topic: Men, Scandal, Glory

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

- Edmund Burke

source: Speech, 5 May 1789, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 2, p. 109

topic: Events, Statistics, Scandal

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

- Moliere

topic: Silence, World, Scandal

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

- Moliere

topic: Secret, Scandal, Sin

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

- Moliere

topic: Wicked, Scandal, Privacy

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.285

topic: Mean, Old Friends, Scandal, Mustard

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

- Saadi

topic: Secret, Scandal, Failing

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.54

topic: Waiting, Scandal, States

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Covered Up, Catholic, Scandal

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Scandal, Particular

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

- Woody Allen

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Years, Scandal

As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.224

topic: Secret, Credit, Scandal

Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.

- Sara Shepard

source: Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

topic: Secret, Adults, Scandal

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

source: "Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life". Book by Ted Goodman, 2016.

topic: Men, World, Scandal

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

- Emma Goldman

source: Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.137, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Scandal, Craving

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

- Nicolas Chamfort

topic: Scandal, Return, Movement, Importunate, Wasps

I'm a professional at [drinking], so that's why I've never had scandals before.

- Seungri

source: Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

topic: Drinking, Scandal

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

- James F. Cooper

topic: Truth, Scandal, Being True

The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

- Laurence Sterne

source: Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

topic: Scandal, Austin, Stories, Improbability, Malicious

When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in the suburbs, no scandals, so nothing to write about. So what he did is concoct one of the nuttiest claims I've ever seen.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

topic: Writing, Kids, Scandal

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: People, Scandal, Novelty

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Differences, Gossip, Scandal

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

- Ouida

source: Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.60

topic: Fall, Arrows, Scandal, Dandelions, Dandelion Seeds

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

- Ouida

source: Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.218