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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant read more
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
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.
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.
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.]
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.
