Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Question your grace the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied read more

Question your grace the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

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.

Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you
both; and in any read more

Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you
both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one
another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything;
for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old
folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the
world.

Scandal is the press agent of old age

Scandal is the press agent of old age

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

A closed mouth catches no flies.