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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Miscommunication is the scandal that motivates the very concept of communication in the first place. -- John Durham Peters
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. -- Iris Marion Young
People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it. -- Kenneth Roberts
salacious gossip. The fact that -- Robert Galbraith
Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy. -- Mike Quigley
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope? -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
History: gossip well told. -- Elbert Hubbard
What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now. -- Woody Allen
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? -- Laurence Sterne
The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty, -- Oscar Wilde
I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama [in Notes On A Scandal]. -- Cate Blanchett
'Scandal' is a huge hit. I'm happy for them, but it was never a really good fit for me. -- Henry Ian Cusick
But it wasn't really scandals Miss Marple wanted. Nothing to get your teeth into in scandals nowadays. Just men and women changing partners, and calling attention to it, instead of trying decently to hush it up and be properly ashamed of themselves. -- Agatha Christie
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. -- Tom Petri
The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out! -- Jennifer Morrison
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned. -- Donna Rice
God is a scandal, - a profitable scandal. -- Charles Baudelaire
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal. -- Edward Abbey
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
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. -- Olivia
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. -- Elizabeth Taylor
This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? -- George Bancroft
It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography. -- Woody Allen
Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words. -- Soul Dancer
I'm the 'Scandal'-'Nashville' kind of TV watcher. -- Blake Mciver Ewing
Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership. -- Rachel Maddow
A perpetual scandal: honoring the dead. -- Marty Rubin
Lebedev: ... There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life. -- Anton Chekhov
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal -- Roger L'estrange
The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing. -- Jessica Hahn
In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact. -- Dick Morris
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse. -- Martin Gardner
There had been a scandal: a year previously, the chair, Professor Gregoriades, had been accused of using a derogatory term in reference to some Asian patients. -- Teju Cole
Into a dozen minds entered a quick suspicion, a rumour of scandal. Could it be that behind the scenes with this couple, apparently so in love, lurked some curious antipathy? Why else this streak of fire across such a cloudless heaven? -- F Scott Fitzgerald
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us. -- Herman Boerhaave
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it. -- Gregory David Roberts
Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number. -- William Raspberry
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.] -- Ovid
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. -- Graydon Carter
There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED). -- Stephen Colbert
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. -- Lord Byron
Fame and recognition break all scandals; if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one. -- M.f. Moonzajer
Jesus didn't care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous. -- Judah Smith
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal. -- Susan Sontag
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night. -- Howard Brenton
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. -- David Gergen
It (Lewinskygate) has ... compromised his moral authority -- Joe Lieberman
This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice. -- John Foot
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed -- Gordon Clark
Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal. -- Lena Dunham
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages -- Elias Canetti
Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team. -- Jay Leno
The Sisters of Fate celebrated their success as a scandalous affair was born. -- Neetha Joseph
Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler. -- Bill Dedman
Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.' -- Jimmy Fallon
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. -- Aldrich Ames
At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday -- Lisa Gardner
You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals. -- Gail Collins
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. -- Josh Billings
It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies. -- Jessica Cutler
Who knows what dirty story, what even better dirty story, it may even be one we have not heard before, told at some colossal pitch of pure smut, beats at this moment in vain against our eardrums. -- Samuel Beckett
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it. -- Matt Drudge
It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets. -- Mary Mccarthy
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. -- John Dryden
When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour. -- Kurt Eichenwald
The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for. -- Haley Fisher
Yes, she was a scandal.
Her brother simply didn't know it.
"I fell in the Serpentine today."
"Yes, well, that doesn't usually happen to women in London. But it's not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge. -- Sarah Maclean
Charitable Impulse XXV. Another Scandal and Another "Explanation" XXVI. Miss Cornelia Gets a New Point of View XXVII. A Sacred Concert XXVIII. A Fast Day XXIX. A Weird Tale -- L.m. Montgomery
Give it enough time, brother, and gossip's history. -- Anonymous
It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven. -- Lewis Sperry Chafer
I don't like controversy. -- Sammy Sosa
People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife. -- Craig Kilborn
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm. -- Rick Santorum
Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
It's hardly matters whether it's true or false. The point is the slander. People love scandal -- Agota Kristof
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about? -- Nick Denton
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
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. -- George Farquhar
No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long. -- Jim Butcher
The media is Obama's scandal condom. -- Greg Gutfeld
I spent a lot of time feeling scandalized, and I loved it. There is nothing more fun than being young and judgmental. -- Mara Wilson
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. -- Moliere
To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs. -- Traci Brimhall
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past. -- Donna Rice
Have you ever seen a woman canter over the hills in the twilight? Scandal sheets are no match for atavism. -- Cees Nooteboom
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery. -- Alfred De Musset
At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes. -- Amin Maalouf
It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more than any mere political chicanery or fraud. (Hercule Poirot) -- Agatha Christie
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. -- Edwin Way Teale
'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. -- Cathleen Schine
CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. This confirms what we always knew. Bill Clinton does the work of three men. -- Argus Hamilton
I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice. -- Uzo Aduba
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. -- George Eliot
An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.' -- Jimmy Fallon
