#scandal

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#above #assaulting #down #during #fifteen

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. ↗

— John Osborne

#considered #london #love #scandal #tea

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#i #life #my life #scandal

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

#dies #itself #kill #scandal #sooner

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#everyone #look #put #right #scandals

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american films #because #begin #comedies #comedy

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world's most vulnerable, the world's exiled, the world's most wounded. Our concern should be what the poor and prostituted think of us, what the God of the universe thinks of us, not what those around us think of us. ↗

— Sarah Lance

#caring #church #compassion #excile #god

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#morality #scandal #gossip