Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

Trent and Ellasbeth did the nasty? Ewwww!

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

People like scandals.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he has left the rest of us here, at the mercy of the demons and the devils. The sins of our fathers have passed to their children, and their children's children, and it will continue to be so until this world is completely destroyed. So it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, because He is not here.

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr. declared, motherhood is ‘as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself.’