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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.
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
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.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill 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.]
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.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
