You May Also Like / View all maxioms
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
read more
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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.
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.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For read more
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
