Mason Cooley Quotes

Scandals are only increased by hushing them up.

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

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

Things can’t be kept secret forever.

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

I know things about R. Kelly that I will take to my grave - unless he tells them.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

I think probably [Donald Trump] is not all that enthusiastic about having the rest of our country see what the real reasons are, because it must be something really important, even terrible, that he's trying to hide.

The truth can't be hidden for long.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy – it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.