scandal quotes

   Excellentioris person× semper casus in vitium, minoris lapsum, comparatione scandali multe longius antecedit. The scandal of an exalted person's fall into vice, when compared to the lapse of one lesser, always far exceeds it.

- Malcolm   d.1093 Canmore
c.1057  Quoted in  John Fordun's Chronicle of Scotland (c.1384), bk.5, ch.4.

   Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

-William Congreve
  Mellefont to Charles. The Double Dealer, act1, sc.1.

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women† It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

- Alexandre, fils Dumas
  On the first performance of his play La Dame aux came  lias, 20 Mar, the first recorded use of the phrase. Quoted in  Joanna Richardson The Courtesans (1967), p.227.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

- George Farquhar
  The Beaux' Stratagem, act1, sc.1.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Henry Fielding
  Love in Several Masques, act 4, sc.11.

Le scandale est souvent pire que le pe  che  . The scandal is often worse than the sin itself.

-Marguerite d'Angoule"  me
  Heptame  ron, pt.25.

Le scandale du monde est ce qui fait l'offense, Et ce n'est pas pe  cher que pe  cher en silence. A scandal is that which gives offence to the world. To sin in private is not to sin at all.

-Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molie'  re
  Le Tartuffe, act 4, sc.5.

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. So strong, so swift, the monster there's no gagging: Cut Scandal's head off, still the tongue is wagging.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  The School for Scandal, prologue.

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Mr Sneer, of Mr Puff's tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'. The Critic, act 2, sc.1.