Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

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

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

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.

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.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

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.