Quotes about scandal

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

— Jean Baudrillard

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

— Josh Billings

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

— Francis H. Bradley

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

— Edmund Burke

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

— Paul Chatfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

— Salvador Dali

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

— Karl Kraus

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

— Alex Mitchell

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

— Hector Hugh Munro

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

— Benjamin Rush

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

— Jonathan Swift

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

— William M. Thackeray

There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.

— Mae West

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

— Oscar Wilde

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

— Oscar Wilde

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

— Oscar Wilde

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

— Moliere