Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.
Scandal
And there’s a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbor’s shame;
On eagles’ wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.Stephen Harvey’s Juvenal.
Every one that repeats it, adds something to the scandal.Ovid.
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.Shakespeare.
Scandal is a bit of false money and he who passes it is frequently as bad as he who originally utters it.Punch.
Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by innumerable streams, but it is extremely difficult to trace it to its source.Punch.
Scandal will not rub out like dirt when it is dry.
Thy tongue is nae scandal.