Scandal Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Scandal


Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. Byron—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 31.	1
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. Congreve—Love for Love. Act I. Sc. 2. (“Losing Loadum” an old game which one plays to lose tricks.)	2
Assail’d by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother’s interest in his heart. Cowper—Hope. L. 570.	3
And though you duck them ne’er so long, Not one salt drop e’er wets their tongue; ’Tis hence they scandal have at will, And that this member ne’er lies still. Gay—The Mad Dog.	4
And there’s a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour’s shame; On eagles’ wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die. Juvenal—Satires. IX. Harvey’s trans.	5
Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus. The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. Ovid—Fasti. IV. 311.	6
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing What makes him honour’d, or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Rape of Lucrece. L. 1,004.	7
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But ’tis so very foul, it won’t go off. Young—Epistles to Pope. Ep. I. L. 199.	8