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Quotes about Scandal


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

Edward Young

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

Benjamin Rush

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

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Josh Billings

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

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

Paul Chatfield

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Eric Hoffer

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