Best 108 quotes in «scandal quotes» category

I'm worried about John Kerry, he's so confident now that he's already planning his White House sex scandal.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

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

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say, 'Well, old Charlie was out in the field playing the big brass tuba on the day it rained gold.' A lot of people have become rich lately who were playing the tuba on the day it rained gold.

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.

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.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

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.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!

State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

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.

The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

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

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

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.

The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are no way at all. If Christianity would only move one small step toward a more tolerant ecumenicalism and exchange the definite article the for the indefinite article a, the scandal would be over, and the world and Christianity could become friends. However, whenever this occurs, Christianity ceases to be Christianity, Christ is denied, and the world is without a Savior.

Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food - that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

This Hillary Clinton scandal has to do with emails. All I get are emails for Canadian Viagra.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.