Scandal Quotes

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. (Elizabeth Taylor)
Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea. View quote
Henry Fielding
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. View quote
William Congreve
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. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. View quote
George Farquhar
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance. View quote
William James
Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal. View quote
Michael Kinsley
Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete. Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labour, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonour to this country. (William Wilberforce)
Gossip is charming History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it. View quote
Don DeLillo
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. View quote
Karl Kraus
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. View quote
J. William Fulbright
Love is a scandal of the personal sort. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason,” that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse. View quote
Martin Gardner
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; To sin in private is not a sin. View quote
Molière
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? View quote
George Bancroft
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. (Ambrose)
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife. View quote
Craig Kilborn
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. View quote
Chris Chocola
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. View quote
Douglas Sirk