#Scandal Quotes

“Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”

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

“No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.”

“Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”

“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.”

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

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

“My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.”

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

“The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.”

“(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.”

“I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”

“With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.”