Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month."
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Scandal
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Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection."
Judah Smith
Pastor
"Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous."
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent."
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"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."
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"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."
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"Happy is he who causes a scandal"
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"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
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"The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence."
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"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
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"... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal."
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"The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money."
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"I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty."
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"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it."
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"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
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"The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition."
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"There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners."
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"Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen."
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"Greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
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"No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather."
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"As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted."
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"The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal."
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"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."
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"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."
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