Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

I hope Lee's scandal isn't real.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

What Mr. [Robert F.] Kennedy says lacks only the merit of being true ... Bobby Kennedy can jump off the capital dome or whatever else he has to do to get the attention of the American people.

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there about what everyone actually already knows.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Silence kills scandal.

Horror is the removal of masks.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

Truth is a naked and open daylight

We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.

What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop"? That's life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.