All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as 'nativist' the advocacy of barring of Islamist… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should… — John Bright Copy Share Image
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery,… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don't bring in any other… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
