Bird Quote by Alexander Pope

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

— Jonathan Swift

Slander is poison to the soul.

— David O. McKay

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

— Henry Fielding

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

— Socrates

Slander is the solace of malignity.

— Joseph Joubert

“Slander may be defeated by equanimity; but courageous thoughts will not pay your baker’s hill, and fortitude is nowhere considered legal tender for beef.”

— George Eliot

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

— Anonymous

Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

— George Herbert

When you hear that people are talking about you, remember this: 'Birds always peck at the best fruit.'

— Anonymous

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

— Isaac Barrow

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

— Josh Billings