Slander is the solace of malignity.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

— Bertrand Russell

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

— Seneca the Younger

“Accusations are convictions in the public mind. You are guilty until proven innocent.”

— Coben

“He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

The truth is no slander

— Proverb

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted…

— William Shakespeare

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there…

— Douglas William Jerrold

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

— William Shakespeare

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

— Aeschylus

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified…

— C. S. Lewis

The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers…

— Mao Zedong

“Slander does to a soul what cancer does to a cell.”

— Criss Jami

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in…

— Alfred the Great