Slander Quotes

There is no protection against slander.

— Moliere

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.

— Terry Pratchett

“A coward talks to everyone but YOU.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

— Sophocles

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

— Mark Twain

Slander is the balm of malignity.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

— Ben Jonson

Slander is poison to the soul.

— David O. McKay

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

— Vanna Bonta

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

— Socrates

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

— Barack Obama

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

— Voltaire

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

— Blaise Pascal

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

— Samuel Johnson

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

— William Shakespeare

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

— William Shakespeare

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

— William Shakespeare

We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters.

— Donald Trump

“A wise man once found peace in the practice of saying nothing, leaving the gossiper with no other choice but to fabricate…

— Herbert Maurice Brunner

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are…

— Confucius

If you have never met me and dont know me personally, dont open your mouth to slander me. People hate to see…

— Anonymous

“Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: "Always…

— Thomas Sowell

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means…

— Margaret Thatcher

Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say…

— Ann Coulter

Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging…

— William Shakespeare

The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as 'nativist' the advocacy of barring of Islamist…

— Tom Tancredo

Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not…

— Isaac of Nineveh

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

“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe…

— Milan Kundera

All those fake news having nothing beneath and having no evidence, were nothing else but slander. And that's why we'll continue to…

— Dmitry Peskov

“It’s a common slander of the Jews, but it’s no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep…

— Martin Amis

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is…

— Mark Twain

It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of…

— Glenn Beck

“You can never trust the deceptive, manipulative and abusive financial solicitors/beggars of political funds of handsome putschists who commit defamation, calumny, polemics…

— Angelica Hopes

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and…

— C. S. Lewis

“They are man's,' said the spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is…

— Charles Dickens

I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned…

— Jeaniene Frost

I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and…

— Anonymous

“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,…

— Christine de Pizan