Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true,… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“I observe that many abusive netizens and insidious individuals kidnap the truth. Their hatred and calumny spread, feeding disinformations like daily toxic… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why croak with dishonesty when your target subject discovers, listens, and witnesses beyond the veil of your duplicity? Your proliferation of misinformation,… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“People spread gossips, calumny, and false accusations to destroy their subject victim's integrity. Question the motive of people who erroneously, offensively, defensively,… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Saint John of the Ladder explains it thus: "The devil tempts us to commit sin; and when he does not succeed, he… — Fr. Belet Copy Share Image
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
“No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. [...] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. — Horace Copy Share Image
![“No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. [...] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues goodness. It is only at the tree laden with fruit that men throw stones. If we would live without being slandered we must wait until we get to heaven. Let us be very heedful not…” quote by Charles H. Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/056/charles-h-spurgeon-1432_calumny_no-innocence-can-shield-a-man-from-the-c_1206710.jpg)
