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Scandal: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto XIII. St. 11.
Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.— CHURCHILL — Ghost. Bk. III. L. 943.
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air His own offences, and strips others' bare.— COWPER — Charity. L. 490.
That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.— DOUGLAS JERROLD — A Comic Author.
Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 508.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.— POPE — Prologue to Satires. L. 201.
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? S.— POPE — Prologue to Satires. L. 307.
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.— POPE — Second Book of Horace. Satire I. Bk. II. L. 71.
There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough.— POPE — Second Book of Horace. Satire I. L. 2.
It is a pretty mocking of the life.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 35.
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 73.
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible, Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen Above the sense of sense; so sensible Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things. X.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 256.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.— BYRON — Don Juan, Canto I. St. 31.
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.
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.
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. Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.— POPE — Epistles of Horace. Ep. I. Bk. II. L. 413.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing What makes him honour'd, or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Lucrece. L. 1,004. 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.