Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

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.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

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

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

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.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
lose a good name to him, before read more

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.