There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that read more

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On read more

And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.

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

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

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend read more

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.