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Scandal Quotes

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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

It is more desirable to have passed away in infancy than to be a public official whose misdeeds are exposed during an uneventful news cycle.
Authors on Scandal Quotes: Richard Brinsley Sheridan Moliere Harry Markopolos David Letterman Bernard Madoff Oscar Wilde Anton Chekhov Mark Shields Jonathan Swift William Shakespeare Cassandra Clare Bob Woodward Ouida Curtis Hanson Nicolas Chamfort Salvador Dali Laurence Sterne Rob Lowe Mason Cooley Catherine Marshall Ross Douthat Jerome Kerviel Emma Goldman Samuel Johnson Ginny Brown-Waite Matt Damon St. Jerome Pierre Salinger Saint Augustine George Michael Bruno Le Maire Otto Schily John Legend
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Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Humankind is an enigmatic entity - the perpetual triumph and blemish of this universe.
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The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are no way at all. If Christianity would only move one small step toward a more tolerant ecumenicalism and exchange the definite article the for the indefinite article a, the scandal would be over, and the world and Christianity could become friends. However, whenever this occurs, Christianity ceases to be Christianity, Christ is denied, and the world is without a Savior.
Paul Washer

4.
The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
Bob Woodward

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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
Otto Schily

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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Lord Byron

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It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.
Bernard Madoff

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In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.
Bernard Madoff

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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
Ouida

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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
Judah Smith

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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
Adam Gopnik

12.
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
Robert Zoellick

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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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote

15.
All one great big lie.
Bernard Madoff

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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

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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

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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
Philip Yancey

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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo

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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali

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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar

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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor

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Happy is he who causes a scandal
Salvador Dali

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Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.
Cassandra Clare

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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings

26.
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
Larry Flynt

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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

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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
Moliere

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke

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

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The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.
Marlene Dumas

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Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
Dario Fo

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... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.
Emma Goldman

34.
There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).
Stephen Colbert

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
Oscar Wilde

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Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Livy

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Hector Hugh Munro

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If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
George Bancroft

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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
Roger L'Estrange

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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding

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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley

42.
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus

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The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.
Mark Noll

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A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
Peter Kreeft

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I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.
Harry Markopolos

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

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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

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They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde

50.
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