Scandal Quotes - Page 3

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates.

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

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.

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?

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

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

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

English people have seen me get through scandals.

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.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.