I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“You ate my dog, you undead freak!” Hey! Watch the slander. I hear the acceptable term is ‘corporeally challenged’ now. No need… — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“I'm sure you won't dream of trying to escape from your obligations by fleeing the city...' 'I assure you the thought never… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“I would have been upset at what you said about me, but I found out that you said it to someone even… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly… — Winfield Scott Copy Share Image
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“It is certainly the case that if you are often reviewed, you will find yourself repeatedly blamed and praised for saying what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] I sincerely love people--oh, so much of what has been said about me is slander!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise… — James Cook Copy Share Image
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“It was enough that slander could ruin a woman, because her purity was the most important thing about her.” — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects. — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue,… — Plautus Copy Share Image
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If you want to overcome the spirit of slander, blame not the person who falls, but the demon that prompted them to… — St. John Climicus Copy Share Image
Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image