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
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. — Horace Copy Share Image
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places. — Ovid Copy Share Image
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.” — 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
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to… — Richard Le Gallienne 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
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
“If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“Those who calumniate the unaware but honorable believing women are cursed in the present life and the Hereafter. And for them is… — The Qur'an An-Nur (23): verse 24 Copy Share Image
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
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