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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.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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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.]
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: 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.
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.
