Censure and scandal are not the same. [ Proverb ]
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. [ Shakespeare ]
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. [ H. W. Shaw ]
A lie has no legs, but a scandal has wings. [ Proverb ]
Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. [ Livy ]
Scandal will rub out like dirt when it is dry. [ Proverb ]
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart. [ Cowper ]
In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. [ Fielding ]
The breast-plate of innocence is not always scandal proof. [ Proverb ]
There are persons always standing ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]
The basis of every scandal is an absolutely immoral certainty. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal. [ L'Estrange ]
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. [ Octave Feuillet ]
The scandal of the world is what makes the offense: it is not sinful to sin in silence. [ Moliere, Tartufe ]
If we should leave out of conversation scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity - what silence! [ Mme. Bachi ]
Scandal is what one-half the world takes pleasure in inventing, and the other half in believing. [ Chatfield ]
The mind conscious of Innocence despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop. [ Chamfort ]
Modern women find a new scandal as becoming as a new bonnet, and air them both in the Park every afternoon. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
One should never make one's debut with a scandal, one should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice. [ Swift ]
The tale-bearer and the tale-hearer should be both hanged up, back to back, one by the tongue, the other by the ear. [ South ]
Scandals are like dandelion seeds - they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. [ Ouida ]
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 ]
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. [ Sheridan ]
I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. [ Montesquieu ]
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. [ St. Jerome ]
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]
History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]