Top 100 Quotes About Scandal
#1. So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.
Megan Fox
#2. All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.
Sinclair Lewis
#3. A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.
Harry Markopolos
#4. 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.
John Linder
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
William Shakespeare
#8. The gentle fair on nervous tea relies,
Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes;
An inoffensive scandal fluttering round,
Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.
George Crabbe
#10. I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.
Demi Lovato
#11. I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages
Cam'ron
#12. I'm worried about John Kerry, he's so confident now that he's already planning his White House sex scandal.
David Letterman
#13. Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately stomped off wasn't going to stop her. She was going to cause the worst scandal London had seen in decades,and she didn't care!
Johanna Lindsey
#14. Some things are better when it's raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this."
"Lying in bed with me?
Lisa Kleypas
#15. Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.
Dave Barry
#16. 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
#17. Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil
#19. Our urge to undo things must come from an idea that what we find in the natural world isn't good enough, that our tinkering will make it better. Spare us the scandal of improvement, I say.
Gretel Ehrlich
#20. We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Peter Utley
#21. I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.
Claudia Cardinale
#22. 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.
Jonathan Swift
#23. The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
Philip Yancey
#24. When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright
#25. The health care system in the United States, I'm sure you know, is a total international scandal. It's twice the per capita cost of comparable countries and one of the worst outcomes, with a huge number of people uninsured altogether. And it's going to get worse.
Noam Chomsky
#27. A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.
Geraldine Brooks
#28. The most scandalous aspect of any scandal is that one gets used to it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#29. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
Michelle Malkin
#30. People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.
Christina Stead
#31. The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.
Karl Barth
#32. The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.
Mark Shields
#33. I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
George Stevens
#34. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
Brian D. McLaren
#35. CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
Ambrose Bierce
#36. The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.
Jean Baudrillard
#37. I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
Hector Elizondo
#39. You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.
Tom A. Watson
#40. 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
#41. Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.
Paul Weyrich
#42. There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar
#43. To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
Moliere
#44. There's just something about progressive charities and celebrity-backed causes that makes every "charity" they create or touch turn into a money pit or a scandal.
Jason Mattera
#45. Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
Edward Young
#46. In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
Jerry Saltz
#47. 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
#48. That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
Austin O'Malley
#49. People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.
Kenneth Roberts
#50. In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
John Yoo
#51. Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
John Clute
#52. It was the old New York way ... the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.
Edith Wharton
#53. Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.
Tom Brokaw
#54. God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan of 'Scandal,' I still love 'Grey's Anatomy,' and 'Resurrection' looks amazing.
Jaime Ray Newman
#55. Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.
Iris Marion Young
#56. 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
#57. Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?
Rosamund Hodge
#58. I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#59. The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
F. Sionil Jose
#60. We can go without dancing and things a little longer."
"Especially since our Great Slipper Scandal quickened the undead and nearly destroyed the palace," said Bramble. "It put us off dancing for at least an hour.
Heather Dixon
#61. The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes
and 50 other corporations
that's the real scandal
Michael Moore
#62. From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don't look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.
Flannery O'Connor
#63. I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
Julianna Baggott
#64. My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.
Jerome Kerviel
#65. How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
Edwin Way Teale
#66. The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!
Jennifer Morrison
#67. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
Bill O'Reilly
#68. 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
#69. I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss.
Paula M. Hunter
#70. In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.
Dick Morris
#71. In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.
Shawn Amos
#72. (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
Blaise Pascal
#73. My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.
Bharati Mukherjee
#74. I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.
Patrick Fischler
#75. Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.
John Wilmot
#76. Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.
Vincent De Paul
#77. I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
Michael Kinsley
#78. I inquired for Mrs. Reynolds and was shewn up stairs, at the head of which she met me and conducted me into a bed room. I took the bill out of my pocket and gave it to her. Some conversation ensued from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.
Alexander Hamilton
#79. 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
#80. Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
Don DeLillo
#81. 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
#82. What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.
Peggy Noonan
#85. No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.
John Banville
#86. Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Nicolas Chamfort
#87. Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
Robert Zoellick
#88. If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.
Tom Verica
#89. For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a "sensationalist" rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!
Joyce Carol Oates
#90. The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.
Joel Achenbach
#91. For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#92. The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Moliere
#94. Apparently 26 years ago, Arnold gave an interview to Oui magazine about his sex life. The good news is that Arnold is married to Maria Shriver and now that he's had a sex scandal, the Kennedy family has finally accepted him.
Jay Leno
#95. Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
Arundhati Roy
#96. 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
#97. On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
Betsy Beers
#98. Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order.
Geert Mak
#99. Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.
Newt Gingrich
#100. President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
Ellen Tauscher
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