Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon 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
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. — Stanisław I Leszczyński 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
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.” — Christina Stead 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart 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
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
“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
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to… — Abraham Coles 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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