quotations about scandal
If something is leaked to the press, the bigmouth will be tracked down and punished. Scandals aren't public scandals if you get there before you enemies do.
MIKE ROYKO
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Its On The T.V
In The Paper
Will You Surrender?
No More Anything Ever
I'll Destroy Everything I've Started
But My Own Glass Heaven All Night
It's A Dirty Scandal
Everybody Knows Now
The Rumors And Headlines
Are You Up?
Are You Tired?
Are You Sick?
Are You Unwell?
Does It Hurt When You Come Down?
ONE MAN ARMY
"Rotting in the Doldrums"
The mind, conscious of innocence, despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal.
OVID
Fasti
The government should stop itself getting entangled in "retail politics" from now on and focus on a few big wins, where high-profile scandals are investigated fully and offenders are brought to justice and judged according to the law of the land.
DINESH WEERAKKODY
"Running an effective administration is what people want", Mirror Business, September 15, 2017
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
Love for Love
With scandal and shame they slandered his name
They told him to freeze, they damned him to roast
Disappointed that he passed away peacefully
Never dying to be a mischievous ghost
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Mischievous Ghost"
Scandal, now you've left me all the world's gonna know
Scandal, they're gonna turn our lives into a freak show
They'll see the heart ache,they'll see the love break
They'll hear me pleading,We'll say for God's sake
Over and over and over again
QUEEN
"Scandal"
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
EDWARD YOUNG
Epistles to Pope
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? Time, the common enemy, must be passed, as the phrase is, and the phrase bears its own commentary ; and since the days of gladiators are gone by, what better substitute than blackening the reputation of the living?
GEORGE BANCROFT
Literary and Historical Miscellanies
Scandal is the offspring of envy and malice, nursed by society, and cultivated by disappointment.
LADY BLESSINGTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
WILLIAM BENTON CLULOW
Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Today the headlines tomorrow hard times
And no-one ever really knows the truth from the lies
And in the end the story deeper must hide
Deeper and deeper and deeper inside
Scandal scandal
QUEEN
"Scandal"
Malice may empty her quiver but cannot wound; the dirt will not stick; the jests will not take; a scandal doth not go deep; it is only a slight stroke upon the injured party, and returneth with the greater force upon those that gave it.
GEORGE SAVILE
"Advice to a Daughter", The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile
Scandal, like a reptile crawling over a bright grass, leaves a trail and a stain.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 5
A man who takes delight in hearing the faults of others, shows sufficiently that he has a true relish of scandal, and consequently the seeds of this vice within him. If his mind is gratified with hearing the reproaches which are cast on others, he will find the same pleasure in relating them, and be the more apt to do it, as he will naturally imagine every one he converses with is delighted in the same manner with himself.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, September 15, 1714
Sadly we're desensitized
To all the scandals and the cover ups
The conspiracies and lies
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES
"Desensitized"
Yet very modern scandals are unfolding in the here and now under the watch of the State. They are not newly unearthed revelations. They have not convulsed our political establishment. Nor have they jolted a society baffled at the warped values of a previous generation.
CARL O'BRIEN
"While we are busy apologising for the past we are creating tomorrow's scandals", The Irish Times, March 12, 2017
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Morning after
Bass drum beating
In my head
Sunday papers
Talking scandal
And a cold
Side of the bed
RICHARD THOMPSON
"Salford Sunday"