Quotes about Scandal
Into a dozen minds entered a quick suspicion, a rumour of scandal. Could it be that behind the scenes with this couple, apparently so in love, lurked some curious antipathy? Why else this streak of fire across such a cloudless heaven?
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Furthermore, we are so accustomed to seeing the cross functioning as a decoration that we can scarcely imagine it as an object of shame and scandal unless it is burned on someone's lawn.
- Fleming Rutledge
I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.
- Dick Vitale
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?
- Dustin Hoffman
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
- Billy Graham
It was the old New York way of taking life without effusion of blood: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than scenes, except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
- Edith Wharton
It was the old New York way, of taking life 'without effusion of blood''; the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency about courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.
- Edith Wharton
At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.
- Edith Wharton
The whole question hinged on Arthur's statement to his brother. Suppress that statement, and the claim vanished, and with it the scandal, the humiliation, the life-long burden of the woman and child dragging the name of Peyton through heaven knew what depths.
- Edith Wharton
St. Irenaeus (125—203), The Scandal of the Incarnation, and St. Athanasius (297—373), On the Incarnation, are two early classics that set a bar of good theology that we have since seldom matched or even understood. The mystery of incarnation is the unique trump card that Christianity adds to the deck of world religions.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Of course, to be honest and consistent, one must ask if "church family" is not also a family that one has to eventually "hate" in this very same way, and with the same scandal involved as hating the natural family.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
My family is used to all manner of controversy.
- John F. Kennedy