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Scandalbegins when the police put a stop to it. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)

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. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out. (Quote by - Mae West)

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. (Quote by - William Wycherley)

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. (Quote by - Moliere)

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. (Quote by - Chris Chocola)

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. (Quote by - George Stevens)

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. (Quote by - Juvenal)

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. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. (Quote by - Benjamin Rush)

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess. (Quote by - Peter Utley)

The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)

Ye prime adepts in scandal's school, who rail by precept and detract by rule! (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

A man dishonored is worse than dead. (Quote by - Cervantes)

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue. (Quote by - Edward Young)

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame: On eagles wings immortal SCANDALs fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. (Quote by - William Harvey)

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. (Quote by - Ovid)

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. (Quote by - John Linder)

It's an absolute scandal that there is no proper financial regulation system within football. (Quote by - Graham Kelly)

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self. (Quote by - Sir Richard Steele)

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)

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