“Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington Copy Share Image
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon 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
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. — Tacitus 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
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. — Diane de Poitiers 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
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself,… — Ben Jonson 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
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image