Scandal Quotes

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.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

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.

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.

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.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

All one great big lie.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

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

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

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

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

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

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.'

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

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