Scandals Quotes (page 3)

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• crying
• enemy
• look

Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench! Meg Cabot

• life
• answered
• answering

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life. William Cowper

• wild
• distance
• time

He must be always on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things. The very air he exhales is indexed and filed away. If only the interest he provokes were limited to his immediate surroundings, but, alas, it is not! With distance, the torrents of wild scandal increase in volume and volubility. The silhouettes of his blood corpuscles, magnified a million times, flit over vast plains; and still farther away, great mountains of unbearable... Vladimir Nabokov

• words
• systems
• camps

Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it. J. M. Coetzee

• old
• people
• courage

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them. Edith Wharton

• time
• selfish
• thoughts

I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've followed strange paths and worshipped strange gods; it must have come to you again and again--in fact you've admitted to me as much--that I was leading, at any time these thirty years, a selfish frivolous scandalous life. And you see what it has made of me. Henry James

• best
• evening
• look

Now look: Droplets of oil were dotted across the front of her best dress, over the mound of her stomach. She was clumsy and fat-stomached and she didn't even have the sense to wear an apron while she was cooking. Also she had paid way too much for this dress, sixty-four dollars at Hecht's, which would scandalize Ira if he knew. How could she have been so greedy? She dabbed at her nose with the back of her hand. Took a deep breath. Well. Anyhow. Anne Tyler

• death
• machine
• hostage

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages Elias Canetti

• mind
• mindfulness
• society

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. George Bernard Shaw

• sin
• sinfulness
• secret

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. Moliere

• english
• people
• english people

English people have seen me get through scandals. George Michael

• historical
• know
• hubris

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. David R. Gergen

• seeing
• see
• sees

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. David R. Gergen

• lies
• winged
• lied

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. Thomas Fuller

• men
• society
• indulging

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. J. William Fulbright