The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. — John Selden Copy Share Image
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English. — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real… — John Braine Copy Share Image
“Love is boss when everything you hear about a person is filtered through their enemies, yet you still choose to love them.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless,… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If he says that, if he wins, he's going to, you know, dismantle the libel laws and come after the newspapers, I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If I see any sort of injustice, I can fight like a dog. I'm not frightened to be outspoken and I can… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“All slander, and most gossip, are cancerous to truth - not just because of the way they spread - but because of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the Church patently tried to profit from such incidents: the Benedictine monks of Norwich Cathedral in England, encouraged by their bishop,… — Diarmaid MacCulloch Copy Share Image
“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion… The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space… — David Irving Copy Share Image
“The compensation question was where they had to deliberate the most. “Probably took three or four hours to just settle on a… — Kelly Loudenberg Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
“I take what Jennifer Lee reported (in her 1991 memoir ) with a grain of salt.” — Cecil Brown Copy Share Image
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image