Scandal Quotes - Page 4

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

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

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

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

It looked incredibly credible!

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

Silence kills scandal.

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

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.

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?

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

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

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

Scandal is only human.

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

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

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

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