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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.

In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in their uniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists. * .

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

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

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.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

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