“Our ignorance of history makes us slander our own times, wrote Gustave Flaubert.” — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Let such as say our sex is void of reason, Know it is slander now but once was treason.” — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
“If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin Copy Share Image
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A wise man once found peace in the practice of saying nothing, leaving the gossiper with no other choice but to fabricate… — Herbert Maurice Brunner Copy Share Image
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
“A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about… — Justin David Nevins Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If one day, God should mute all… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash'… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
[The establishment and the mass media] will attack you, they will slander you, they will seek to destroy your career and your… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to… — Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you have never met me and dont know me personally, dont open your mouth to slander me. People hate to see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which,… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has… — Dominique de Villepin Copy Share Image
“Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: "Always… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image