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    The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

by Josh Billings Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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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.

by Anon. Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
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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.

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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.

by Paul Chatfield Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

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

by Benjamin Rush Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]

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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.

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

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

by James Fenimore Cooper Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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