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.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , Source: Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation)
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She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.
Paul Chatfield
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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.
William Congreve
Quotes , 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.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Hope (l. 570)
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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.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , 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.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
Edward Young
Quotes , Source: Epistles to Pope (ep. I, l. 199)
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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.
William D. Howells
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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).
Senator Stephen Young
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Anon.
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Saki
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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Paul Chatfield
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