Calumny Quotes
42 Calumny quotes by 36 unique authors
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Something of calumny always sticks.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
— George Washington
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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
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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.
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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
Who Wrote These Calumny Quotes
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