Something of calumny always sticks.

“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

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a…

— Richard Le Gallienne

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we…

— Joseph Addison

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

— John of Kronstadt

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

— Herodotus

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“Saint John of the Ladder explains it thus: "The devil tempts us to commit sin; and when he does not succeed, he points scornfully…

— Fr. Belet

After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality…

— William Benton Clulow

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all…

— Anonymous

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.

— Herman Boerhaave

“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

— Margaret Chase Smith

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”

— William Shakespeare