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• It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

  Moliere

  Secret, Sin

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• A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

  Ouida

  Littles, Tongue, Neighbor

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.218

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• Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, States

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.54

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• I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Truth, Powerful

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• People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

  Julia Roberts

  Drama, People, Layers

  "Julia Roberts: The Price of Fame". Interview with Cable Neuhaus, ew.com. November 22, 1991.

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Funny Things, Half, Whispering

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip, Political, Morality

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

  Francis Quarles

  Hatred, Division, Ruins

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.49

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

  Benjamin Rush

  Dies

  Benjamin Rush, Henry J. Williams (1905). “A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life Or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr. Benjamin Rush, Born Dec. 24, 1745 (old Style) Died April 19, 1813”

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• We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.

  Saint Basil

  Order, Suffering, Should

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• The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Fighting, People, World

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• Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

  George Packer

  Character, Destiny, Politician

  "The Trouble with Christie" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 13, 2014.

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• The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Basketball, Team, School

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Thieves, Cases, Robbery

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.106, Oxford University Press

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• Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

  James F. Cooper

  Truth, Being True

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• Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

  Lord Byron

  Form, Dissection, Subjects

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.8

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• Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

  Saadi

  Secret, Failing, Distrust

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• 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.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Children, News, Months

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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

  William Shakespeare

  Particular

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• Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

  Ovid

  Snow, Rolling, Add

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Secret, Credit, Gains

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.224

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• You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hug, Fawns

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.168, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• 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.

  Chris Chocola

  Oil, Stories, Months

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• There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Years, Names

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128

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• 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.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Speech, Used, Beats

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