Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks read more

Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant read more

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

A lover without discretion is no lover at all.

A lover without discretion is no lover at all.

He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.

He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that read more

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend read more

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.