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
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
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places. — Ovid Copy Share Image
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. — Horace 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
I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To… — Andrew Johnson 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
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
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and… — Aurangzeb Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine 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
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong,… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
