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
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
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
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
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
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
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. — Tacitus 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 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
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
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
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 a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong,… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. — Pierre Beaumarchais 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
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
