Scandal Quotes

“It is what people did that worried their contemporaries, not what people were.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“Men met men, after all, as they always had. But because of what was about the take place, we know a little more about it.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“The trouble was for those who worried about such things that gay behaviour was not actually against the law.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“Now that public concern had turned to what looked like public hysteria, they clearly had to be vigilant.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“It is no small matter to flee your home and go abroad, especially to do so within the space of a few hours to gather your belongings and make arrangements for your property or your money”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“Political oppositions have a habit of flinging sexual allegations at those in power. There are some allegations, even today, which are so unpleasant that just to accuse someone of them almost dispenses with the need for proof.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“By invoking the mob, it can also lead to a terrifying rise in tension among innocent people, or among unconventional people who love each other in different ways.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“Whatever he did, he didn't deserve to have his only memorial on earth remaining as the top of his head torn from a photo in the family album. But to bring him in from the cold, I had to know how he had been involved.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“It is no small matter to flee your home and go abroad, especially to do so within the space of a few hours to gather your belongings and make arrangements for your property or your money.”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“By invoking the mob, it can also lead to a terrifying rise in tension among innocent people, or among unconventional people who love each other in different ways”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“Whatever he did, he didn't deserve to have his only memorial on earth remaining as the top of his head torn from a photo in the family album. But to bring him in from the cold, I had to know how he had been involved”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“The Dublin elite were nervous, for obvious reasons. They were not just frightened of being exposed personally. Their fear was that people would be unfairly caught up in the whole scandal because of the brutish and intrusive investigation”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime

“Political oppositions have a habit of flinging sexual allegations at those in power. There are some allegations, even today, which are so unpleasant that just to accuse someone of them almost dispenses with the need for proof”
― David Boyle, Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a Crime