Calumny Quotes
42 Calumny quotes by 36 unique authors
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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…
— Unknown Author
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
— Ben Jonson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
— Maria W. Stewart
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.
— Pope Francis
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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.
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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
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
— Lajos Kossuth
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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
— Ovid
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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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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
— Diogenes
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Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a…
— Ben Jonson
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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
— Horace
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