How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Beijing should authorize a full and impartial investigation into the involvement of local authorities in the blood scandal and hold those responsible accountable.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]

O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.