Calumny Quotes

42 Calumny quotes by 36 unique authors

Calumny is only the noise of madmen. — Diogenes
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
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. — Charles Caleb Colton
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
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. — Horace
Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of… — Nicolas Chamfort
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal… — Isaac D'Israeli
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up… — William Shakespeare
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. — Thomas Paine
Something of calumny always sticks. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. — Pierre Beaumarchais
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof;… — Robert Emmet
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Herman Boerhaave
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of… — Abraham Coles
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort… — Richard Le Gallienne
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. — Robert Emmet
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been… — Thurgood Marshall
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used… — Gary Shteyngart

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