Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

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 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.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

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.

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he read more

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.

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

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

Scandal is the press agent of old age

Scandal is the press agent of old age