Calumny Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was… — Jacques Charles
Calumnies are answered best with silence. — Ben Jonson
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give… — Joseph Addison
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not… — Samuel Johnson
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not… — William Shakespeare
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing… — William Hazlitt
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. — Maria W. Stewart
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head… — Kenny Smith
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that… — Eric Hoffer
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of… — Heinrich Heine
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was… — Cheikh Anta Diop
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done… — Aurangzeb
Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself. — Pope Francis
I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it. — John of Kronstadt
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies. — Lajos Kossuth
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places. — Ovid
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus

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