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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 31)
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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.
Author: William Congreve
Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 2), "losing Loadum" is an old game which one plays to lose tricks
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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.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Hope (l. 570)
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation)
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation)
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Fasti (IV, 311)
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 1,004)
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He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Epistles to Pope (ep. I, l. 199)
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
Author: Logan P. Smith
Source: None
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Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.
Author: William D. Howells
Source: None
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In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in their
uniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists.
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(the same thing is being done to the Shiites and Sunnis
by mosque bombers.. with the US military or Sharon
operatives tagged as Sunnis for Shiites and Shiites for
Sunnis).
Author: Senator Stephen Young
Source: None
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Author: Benjamin Rush
Source: None
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Source: None
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Author: Saki
Source: None
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Author: Paul Chatfield
Source: None
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