Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.