#scandal

He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#mickey #scandalous-desires #silence #love

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#morality #scandal #gossip

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#characters #complicated #immensely #novel #scandal

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess. ↗

— Peter Utley

#excess #never #out #scandal #search

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers! ↗

— John Cusack

#i #i am #offers #open #scandals

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#in fact #itself #mess #nations #riddled

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#average #average americans #demand #fear #greatest

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#around #certain #come #covert #detailed

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#deep #his #iceberg #just #kind

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. ↗

— William Wycherley

#call #honor #men #only #persons