Quotes Tagged "scandal"

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

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

I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

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

Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.