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    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.]

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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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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.

by Paul Chatfield Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

by Josh Billings Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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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.

by William Congreve Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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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.

by Paul Chatfield Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

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

by Benjamin Rush Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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